The meaning of the verb morphological characteristics and syntactic function
Verb - This independent part speech that denotes an action, state or attitude and answers questions what to do? what to do?: work, clean, get sick, be afraid, want, be wealthy. All forms verb have morphological characteristics of type (they can be perfect or imperfect) and transitivity (they can be transitive or intransitive). Among the verb forms there are differences conjugated(change according to moods, tenses, persons or genders, as well as numbers) and unconjugated(initial form verb, participles and gerunds).
In a sentence, conjugated verb forms play the role of a predicate (they have special forms predicates - forms of mood and tense), non-conjugated verbal forms can also be other members of the sentence. For example: Mermaid swam along the blue river, illuminated full moon... (M. Lermontov); So thought a young rake, flying in the dust on postage... (A. Pushkin).
Infinitive
The initial (dictionary) form of the verb is infinitive, or infinitive(from Latin infiniti - vus - “uncertain”). The infinitive denotes an action regardless of mood, tense, person, number, that is, without its connection with the actor (subject).
The infinitive is an unchangeable form of the verb, which has only constant morphological features of the verb: aspect, transitivity/intransitivity, reflexivity/nonreflexivity, type of conjugation. (If the conjugated verb forms have an unstressed ending, then the type of conjugation is determined by the infinitive.)
The formal indicators of the infinitive are suffixes -t, -t(at school they are usually considered as graduations). Suffix -th comes after vowels (watch, think, sing), A -ty- after consonants (carry, carry, weave). Some verbs end in the infinitive with -ch: bake, protect, flow, be able and etc.; historically in -whose merged infinitive indicator -ty and the final root sound [G] or [To]: shape type “bake”, “take care” as a result of phonetic changes transformed into "oven", "preserve" and so on.
In a sentence, the infinitive can be any part of the sentence. For example: 1) Be in love for others - a heavy cross... (B. Pasternak); 2) He [Startsev] decided to go to the Turkins(for what purpose?) see what kind of people they are (A. Chekhov); 3) I acted carelessly, indulging in the sweet habit of seeing and hearing you every day (A. Pushkin); 4) The cleanest shirts orders captain put on!_ (B. Okudzhava).
Note. Example (2) - with verbs of motion (leave, come in etc.) or stopping movement (stop, stay, sit down etc.) the infinitive is a circumstance of the goal (names the goal of movement or cessation of movement): Sometimes he stopped in the sands(for what purpose?) relax (K. Paustovsky).
Example (4) - the infinitive is not included in the predicate and is an addition in the sentence if it denotes the action of another person (object) other than the one named as the subject.
Verb Basics
The verb has two basics: infinitive stem And basis of present/simple future tense.(Sometimes it also stands out past tense basis but for most verbs it coincides with the stem of the infinitive.) Some verb forms are formed from basics infinitive, and the other part is from basics present/simple future tense. These two basics Many verbs are different.
To highlight the base of the infinitive, you need to separate the formative suffix of the infinitive: carried- you, pussy- yea, speak up- oh, read- ugh, rice- t.
To highlight the basis of the present/simple future tense, you need to separate the personal ending from the form of the present/simple future tense (usually the 3rd person plural form is taken): carried- ut, write- ut, dialect- yat, read j - ut, pucyj - ut.
To highlight basis past tense, you need to discard the formative suffix -l- and the ending from the past tense form (you can use any form except the masculine singular form, since it can represent null suffix, which makes it difficult to highlight basics): carried- l-a, pisa- l-ah, speak- l-a, read- l-a, rice- l-a.
There are verbs that have the same basics infinitive and present/simple future tense, and the past tense stem differs from them: eid- here you go- ut, w- l-a. basics different: I'll get wet- ugh, wet- ut, wet- l-a; tere- tb, tr- ut, ter- l-a. There are verbs that have all three basics match up: carried- you, carried- ut, carried- la.
Verb forms that are formed from the infinitive stem | Verb forms that are formed from the stem of the present/simple future tense |
1. Forms of the past tense of the indicative mood: carried, wrote, spoke, read, drew. | 1. Forms of the present and simple future tense of the indicative mood: I'm carrying it, I'll write it, I say, 4 umaj- y (spelling - reading), pucyj- y(I draw). |
2. Forms of conditional mood: would carry, write, speak, read, draw. | 2. Forms of the imperative mood: carry, write, speak, read) (read), rice) (draw). |
3. Active participles past tense: carrying, writing, speaking, reading, drawing. | 3. Active present participles: carrying, writing, speaking, reading j-ush-y (reader),pucyj-ush-y (drawing). |
4. Passive past participles: carried away, written, drawn-nn-yp. | 4. Present passive participles: nes-ohm-y, talk-i.ch-y, chitauem-y (readable), pucyj-um-y (drawable). |
5. Perfect participles: writing, speaking, reading, drawing. | 5. Imperfect participles: I'm not saying, I read" ja (reading)pucyj- a(drawing). |
Verb type
Verbs in Russian belong to one of two types: to imperfect or to perfect.
Verbs perfect form answer the question what to do? and denote an action limited in its duration, having an internal limit, completeness. Perfect Verbs can denote an action that has ended (or will end) having achieved a result (learn, draw), an action that has begun (or will begin), and this very beginning of the action is understood as its boundary, limit (play, sing), one-time action (push, shout, jump- verbs with suffix -Well).
Verbs imperfect form answer the question what to do? and denote an action without instructions
to its limit, without limiting its course in time, the action is long or repeated (teach, draw, play, shout).
Imperfect and perfect verbs form species pairs. The species pair consists of imperfective verb and a perfective verb, having the same lexical meaning and differing only in meaning kind: read- read, write - write, build- build.
Imperfect verbs are formed from perfective verbs using suffixes:
1) -iva-, -yva-: consider- examine, question- ask, sign- sign;
2) -va: open- open, give- give, put on- put on shoes;
3) -a-(-s): save- save, grow up- grow up.
Perfective verbs are formed from imperfective verbs in various ways:
1) using view attachments on-, with-, pro-, you-, on- and etc,: treat- cure, bake- bake, make- do, write - write, read- read, build- build, teach- learn etc. (But more often, with the help of a prefix, perfective verbs are formed, which differ from imperfective verbs not only in the meaning of the aspect, but also in a change in the lexical meaning; such verbs do not form an aspectual pair: read- reread, recount, read out etc.);
2) using a suffix -well-: get used to it- get used to it, nod- nod, jump- jump.
Some verbs that make up an aspectual pair may differ only in the place of stress: scatter- scatter, chop- slice.
Separate aspect pairs are made up of verbs with different roots: speak- say, search- find, put- put, take- take.
Some verbs are single-species. They do not form a species pair and are either only perfect form (to find yourself, rush, sleep, scream etc.), or only imperfect form (prevail, be present, sit, be).
There are also bispecies verbs that combine meaning with perfect and imperfect forms. Their appearance is determined from the context: marry, execute, wound, order, as well as verbs with suffixes -ova(t), -irova(t): influence, use, automate, asphalt, telegraph etc. For example: The guns are firing from the pier, they are ordering the ship to land (what are they doing?) (A. Pushkin); Would you like me to order (what will I do?) bring the rug? (N. Gogol).
Verb type influences the formation of its forms (primarily forms of time): in imperfect verbs in the indicative mood there are forms of all three tenses (and in the future tense they have a complex form) and a full set of tense forms of participles; at perfective verbs There are no forms of the present tense in the indicative mood (the form of the future tense is simple) and present participles.
Transitive and intransitive verbs
Vary verbs transitive and intransitive.
Transitional Verbs denote an action that is directly aimed at an object. They may carry a direct complement in accusative case without preposition, answering a question who?"/what?", write an article, knit a sweater, sing a song.
Instead of the accusative case, the object of a transitive verb can also appear in genitive case without preposition:
1) if there is a negative particle Not before a transitive verb: understood the problem- did not understand the task; read the novel- haven't read the novel; Waste time- don't waste time;
2) if the action does not transfer to the entire object, but only to part of it: drank water(all the water in question) - drank water(Part), bring firewood- bring firewood.
When determining transitivity/intransitivity of verbs It is also necessary to take into account the meaning of the noun in the form of the accusative case - it must name the object of the action. Wed: stand for an hour (in line) or live for a week (at sea), where the verbs are not transitive, although they are followed by nouns in the accusative case without a preposition: All night long(V.p. with the meaning of time, not object) thundered(intransitive verb) a neighboring ravine, a stream, bubbling, ran towards the stream (A. Fet).
Verbs that cannot be carried direct object, are intransitive: to engage(how?) sports, understand(in what?) in music, refuse(from what?) from help.
Note. Transitivity/intransitivity closely related to the lexical meaning of the verb: in one meaning verb can be transitive, and in the other - intransitive. Wed: I'm telling the truth (I'm telling- “I express” is a transitive verb). The child is already speaking (speaking- “talks” - intransitive verb); Tomorrow I will go alone, I will teach(intransitive verb) at school and I will give my whole life to those who may need it (A. Chekhov); learn lessons(transitive verb).
Reflexive verbs
TO reflexive verbs include verbs with a postfix -sya, -sya. All reflexive verbs are intransitive. They are formed both from transitive verbs (distinguish - differ, please- rejoice, dress- dress), and from intransitives (knock- knock, blacken- turn black). From ordinary derivational suffixes -xia differs in that it is attached to verb forms after endings (knocking, knocking). Suffix -xia is added after consonants, and -s- after vowels (studied- studied); in participle forms and after vowels it is added -sya, and not -s: differing - differing.
Joining transitive verbs, suffix -xia turns them into intransitive: dresses whom?/what?- gets dressed. By joining intransitive verbs, -xia enhances the meaning of intransitivity: turns white- turns white.
Suffix -xia also serves to form impersonal forms from personal verbs: I am not sleeping- I can't sleep, I want- I would like to.
Among verbs with suffix -xia there are also those that do not have parallel forms without this suffix: laugh, hope, bow, fight and etc.
Verb conjugations
Conjugation - this is a change in the verb by persons and numbers. (Term conjugated forms the verb is used in a broader sense than the term conjugation . The conjugated forms of the verb include all forms except the infinitive, participles and gerunds, i.e. forms of all moods.)
Depending on the personal endings in the Russian language, it is customary to distinguish two conjugations - I and II, which differ from each other by vowel sounds in the endings: carry, sing, speak, remain silent, carry, sing, speak, remain silent, carry, sing, speak, remain silent, carry, sing, speak, remain silent, carry, sing, speak, remain silent
I conjugation | II conjugation |
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If the ending is stressed, conjugation determined by the end: you call, you lead - I conjugation, you're burning, you're sleeping- II conjugation.
But most verbs conjugation has no emphasis on personal endings. In such cases conjugation is determined by the infinitive (by the vowel that comes before the infinitive suffix).
Ko II conjugation These include those verbs with an unstressed personal ending in which 1) the infinitive ends in -i-t (carry, saw, spend etc.), except for verbs shave, lay, rare verbs rest on(“to be founded, to be built”) and be ruffled(“to waver, to sway, to swell”). (Verbs rest on And be ruffled are used only in the 3rd person unit form. and plural numbers, other forms are not used.); 2) exception verbs whose infinitive ends in -e-t (look, see, hate, offend, depend, endure, twirl) and on -a-th (drive, hold, hear, breathe).
All other verbs with unstressed personal endings belong to I conjugation.
It should be remembered that prefixed verbs formed from unprefixed verbs belong to the same type conjugations, as without prefixes (drive- catch up- overtake- kick out etc. - II conjugation). Verbs with -sya (s) belong to the same type of conjugation as without -sya (-s) (drive- chase- II conjugation).
In the Russian language there are also differently conjugated verbs, in which some forms are formed according to I conjugation, and others - according to II. These include: 1) want- in the singular it changes according to I conjugation (Want- Want- wants), and in the plural - according to II (we want- want to- want); 2) run, which has all forms like verbs of II conjugation (running- you're running- runs- let's run- run), except 3rd person plural. numbers - are running(according to I conjugation); 3) honor- varies according to II conjugation (honor- honors- we honor- honor), except 3rd person plural. numbers (honor) although there is a form honor which is now used less frequently than honor; 4) disdain(“dawn, glow a little”) - used only in the 3rd person singular form (it's dawning- II conjugation) and plural (they are dawning-I conjugation): Dawn is just breaking; The stars are faintly shining in the sky.
Uncharacteristic for verbs I and II conjugations verbs have an ending system (archaic) eat, bother, give, create(and their prefix derivatives: overeat, overeat, hand over, give away, betray, recreate and etc.).
eat f-e-e eats | I'll give you give you give |
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eat eat eat eat | give it, they'll give it to them |
Verb be also unique. From him, rarely used forms of the 3rd person singular have been preserved in modern Russian. and plural numbers of the present tense - There is And essence: A straight line is the shortest distance between two points; The most common general abstractions accepted by almost all historians are: freedom, equality, enlightenment, progress, civilization, culture (L. Tolstoy), and the future tense is formed from another root: will- you will- will- we will- you will- there will be.
It should be remembered that verbs are conjugated (changed according to persons and numbers) only in the present and simple future tense. If the form of the future is complex (in imperfective verbs), then only the auxiliary verb is conjugated be, and the main verb is taken in the infinitive. Verbs in the past tense are not conjugated (they do not change according to persons).
Verb mood
Verbs change according to mood. Form moods shows how the action relates to reality: whether the action is real (taking place in reality), or unreal (desired, required, possible under certain conditions).
In Russian, verbs have forms of three moods: indicative, conditional (subjunctive) and imperative.
Verbs in indicative mood denote a real action that is happening, has happened or will actually happen in a certain time (present, past or future). Verbs in the indicative mood change over time: I'm doing(present time) was studying(past tense), I'll study(Future tense).
Verbs in conditional mood do not indicate real actions, but desired, possible ones. Conditional forms are formed from an infinitive stem (or past tense stem) with the help of a suffix -l-(followed by an ending with the meaning of number and in the singular - gender) and particles would (b)(which can come before the verb, after it, or can be torn away from it). For example: If I were a poet, I would live like a goldfinch and would not whistle in a cage, but on a branch at dawn (Yu. Moritz).
IN conditional verbs vary by number and gender (there is no tense or person in this mood): would have passed, would have passed, would have passed, would have passed.
Verbs in imperative mood denote an incentive to action (request, order), that is, they denote not a real action, but a required one. Verbs in the imperative mood change according to numbers and persons (there is also no time in this mood).
The most common forms are the 2nd person singular and plural, which express the motivation for action of the interlocutor (interlocutors).
Form 2 faces unit. numbers are formed from the stem of the present/simple future tense using a suffix -And- or without a suffix (in this case, the stem of the verb in the imperative mood coincides with the stem of the present/simple future tense): talk, see, write, hold, work(the basis of the present tense is pa6 omaj- ym), rest (rest)-ut), remember (rememberj-ut), cut (cut), stand up (will stand up).
2nd person plural form numbers are formed from the 2nd person singular form. numbers using endings -those: speak- \those\, hold- \those\, for-remember- \those\ And etc.
Forms 3rd person unit. and many more numbers express the motivation to action of one or those who are not participating in the dialogue. They are formed using particles let, let, yes + shapes 3rd person unit. or more indicative numbers: let them go, let them go, long live, long liveetc.: Yes they know descendants Orthodox lands dear past fate (A. Pushkin).
1st person plural form numbers expresses an impulse to joint action, in which the speaker himself is a participant. It is formed using particles come on, come on + infinitive of imperfective verbs (Let's, let's + sing, dance, play) or 4- form of 1st person plural. indicative numbers of perfective verbs (come on, let's + sing, dance, play): Let's talk compliment each other... (B. Okudzhava); Let's drop words are like a garden- amber and zest... (B. Pasternak); Comrade life, Let's quickly let's trample, trample According to the five-year plan, the days are left... (V. Mayakovsky).
Mood forms can be used not only in their literal meaning, but also in a figurative meaning, that is, in a meaning characteristic of another mood.
For example, the imperative form can; have the meanings of the conditional mood (1) and indicative mood (2): 1) Do not be It’s God’s will, we wouldn’t give up Moscow (M. Lermontov);2) Since he told him Tell:“I see, Azamat, that you really liked this horse” (M. Lermontov).
Verb in the indicative mood can be used in the imperative sense: However, it is already dark in the field; hurry up! went, went, Andryushka! (A. Pushkin); The commandant walked around his army, telling the soldiers: “Well, kids, let's wait today for Mother Empress and we will prove to the whole world that we are brave and sworn people” (A. Pushkin).
The conditional form can have an imperative meaning: Daddy, you I'd like to talk to Alexandra, she is behaving desperately (M. Gorky).
Verb tense
In the indicative mood, verbs change tenses. Forms of time express the relationship of action to the moment of speech. In the Russian language there are forms of three tenses: present, past and future. The number of tense forms and the way they are formed depends on the type of verb. Imperfective verbs have three forms of tense, and their future form is complex. Perfective verbs have only two forms of tense (they do not have a present tense), the future form is simple.
Form present time shows that the action coincides with the moment of speech or is carried out constantly, regularly repeated: Full steam ahead rushes train, wheels twirls steam locomotive... (B. Pasternak); Oh how murderous we are we love you How V in the violent blindness of passions we are most likely we're ruining whatever is dearer to our hearts! (F. Tyutchev).
Only imperfective verbs have present tense forms. They are formed with the help of endings that are attached to the base of the present tense and indicate at the same time not only the time, but also the person and number. The set of endings depends on the conjugation.
Form past tense shows that the action precedes the moment of speech: We all learned a little something and somehow... (A. Pushkin).
Past tense forms are formed from the infinitive stem using a suffix -l-, followed by an ending with the meaning of the number and in units. number - kind: sang, sang, sang, sang.
Some verbs have a suffix -l- absent in the masculine form: drove, rubbed, grew, shored, froze and etc.
Past verb tense go is formed from another base, different from the base of an indefinite form: go- walked, walked, walked, walked.
Form future tense indicates that the action will occur after the moment of speech: The cold will come, the leaves will fall off- and it will be ice- water (G. Ivanov).
Both imperfective and perfective verbs have future tense forms, but they are formed differently.
Shapes of the future verb tenses perfective forms are formed from the base of the simple future tense using the same endings as the forms of the present verb tenses imperfect form (this form is called form simple future tense): I will write, I will tell, I will bring.
Shapes of the future verb tenses imperfections are formed by joining forms will, will, will, will, will, will to the infinitive of an imperfective verb (this form is called the form complex future tense): I will write, I will tell, I will carry.
Forms of tense can be used not only in their basic meaning, but also in a figurative meaning characteristic of forms of other tenses.
Present tense forms can denote an action preceding the moment of speech (the use of present tense forms in a story about the past is called present historical): Only, you understand, I'm going out from the world, look- my horses are worth quietly near Ivan Mikhailovich (I. Bunin).
Present tense forms can also denote an action following the moment of speech (future tense meaning): I'm all ready, I'm after lunch I'm sending things. The Baron and I tomorrow let's get married tomorrow we're leaving to the brick factory, and the day after tomorrow I’m already at school, begins new life (A. Chekhov).
Past tense forms can be used to mean future tense: Run, run! Otherwise I died (K. Fedin).
Future tense forms can have past tense meaning: Gerasim looked and looked, and suddenly he laughed (I. Turgenev).
Person, number and gender of the verb
Forms verb faces express the relationship of the action indicated by the verb to the speaking person.
There are three different verb faces: first, second and third.
Form first faces the only one numbers denotes the speaker's action: I'll sing, I'll come in.
Form first faces plural numbers denotes the action of a group of people, which includes the speaker: Let's eat, let's go.
Form second faces singular indicates the action of the interlocutor: eat, come in.
Form second faces plural denotes the action of a group of people, which includes the interlocutor: sing, come in.
Forms third faces singular and plural denote the actions of one or those who do not participate in the dialogue, i.e. is not a speaker or interlocutor: sings, comes in, sings, comes in.
Category faces And numbers Verbs They have only the present and future tenses of the indicative mood and the imperative mood. Verbs in the past tense and in the conditional mood have no category faces, but vary according to numbers And childbirth:(I, you, he) led\ \ - male genus, (me, you, she) led\a\- female genus, (me, you, it) vel-\o\- average genus, (we you they) vel-\and\- plural number.
Not all Russian verbs have a full set of personal forms.
In Russian there are so-called insufficient And redundant Verbs.
Insufficient verbs do not have a full set of forms for one reason or another. Some verbs do not have a 1st form faces units numbers, since they are difficult for pronunciations:win, convince, convince, dissuade, find, feel, outshine, dare etc. In cases where it is still necessary to use the 1st form the faces of these verbs, resort to a descriptive method; I have to win, I want to convince, I can find myself.
A number of verbs do not use the 1st and 2nd forms faces singular and plural numbers for semantic reasons (these verbs name processes occurring in nature or in the animal world): calve, whelp, rust, dawn, turn white, brighten, resound(about sound) flare up and so on.
In modern Russian, the opposite phenomenon also occurs, when some verbs form forms faces present (or simple future) tense is two different ways: splash- splashes / splashes, drips- drips/drips, splash- splashes/splashes, poke- pokes/pokes, wave- waves/waves and etc.
Impersonal verbs
Impersonal verbs - these are verbs that name actions or states that occur as if by themselves, without the participation of the actor: to shiver, to feel sick, to be unwell, to get light, to dawn, to get cold, to evening, to get dark etc. They denote the states of man or nature.
These verbs do not change for persons and do not combine with personal pronouns. They are used as predicates of impersonal sentences, and the subject is impossible with them.
Impersonal verbs have only the infinitive form (dawn, chill), form coinciding with the 3rd person singular form (it’s dawning, it’s chilling), and the neuter singular form (it was getting light, it was chilly).
Group impersonal verbs is replenished by personal verbs by adding a postfix to them -sya: I can’t read, I can’t sleep, I can’t believe it, easily breathe, live etc.
Quite often, personal verbs are used to mean impersonal. Wed: Lilac smells(personal verb) good o And Smells(personal verb in impersonal meaning) hay over the meadows (A. Maikov); The wind bends the trees to the ground and makes me sleepy; Something is getting dark in the distance And It gets dark early in winter.
Morphological analysis of the verb includes the identification of four constant features (aspect, reflexivity, transitivity, conjugation) and five unstable ones (mood, tense, person, number, gender). The number of permanent verb features can be increased by including features such as verb class and stem type.
Scheme morphological analysis verb. I. Part of speech. 1. Initial form (indefinite form). 2. Permanent signs: 2) repayment; 3) transitivity-intransitivity; 4) conjugation. 3. Variable signs: 1) inclination; 2) time (if any); 3) face (if any); 5) gender (if any). III. Syntactic function. Listen carefully, standing in the forest or among an awakened flowering field... (I. Sokolov-Mikitov) | Sample morphological analysis of a verb. I. Listen- verb, denotes action: (what do you do?) listen. II. Morphological characteristics. 1.The initial form is to listen. 2. Permanent signs: 1) perfect view; 2) returnable; 3) intransitive; 4) I conjugation. 3. Variable signs: 3) 2nd person; 4) plural; III. In a sentence it is a simple verbal predicate. |
Good afternoon, dear student! Today we will look at types of verbs. Very often my students wonder why there are so many different verbs in the Russian language, how to determine their tense, and why some verbs are used with prefixes and some without. To understand all these issues, let's look at perfect and imperfect verbs.
You will find the form of imperfective verbs in the dictionary, the verb in in this case denotes an action, and from this form perfective verbs are formed. It should be noted that there are quite a lot of these methods, here are some of them:
With help consoles, compare:
| Imperfect species | Perfect view |
| Read To read | Read Has red |
| Write To write | Has written |
| Prepare | Has cooked |
| Buy To buy | Buy Has bought |
With the help of different suffixes:
So, if we want to say that an action happens regularly, we need an imperfective verb. If the action occurred 1 time at some point or day/hour, etc. and we know about its result, then we are dealing with a perfect verb. Such verbs answer the question " what to do?"
If we are talking about repeated actions, then we not only use imperfective verbs that answer the question " what to do?", but we also use different Additional information in the person of adverbs, which precisely show this repetition. For example,
Anastasia can't cook ( what to do?), she cooks rarely. Anastasiya cannot cook, she cooks rare.
I bought (what did?) Nice dress, it's for me goes very well! (the result is visible) I bought a new dress, it suits me much.
To correctly determine the aspect of a verb, you can remember some adverbs that will help you correctly decide whether a particular verb belongs to a certain aspect:
Imperfect species
What are they doing? When? How often?
I finished my porridge and went for a walk.
The students were delayed at the university, but still mastered the material.
She took a very long time to redo the report.
Tanya cried a lot and did not calm down.
The children laughed a lot and the teacher decided to play with them some more.
Remember, please, that imperfective verbs have 3 forms: past, present and future:
Perfective verbs have only 2 tense forms: past and future
Watched and will watch (What did they do and what will they do?)
The past tense form changes according to numbers:
ran ( singular) and ran (plural) He ran and they ran.
Verb— an independent part of speech that means process, relation, movement, state of an object or its action. In a sentence it is most often a predicate, but can be any member of a sentence.
Imperfect forms indicate an incomplete, repeated, extended action. In the initial form (infinitive) answer the question “What to do?”
They can:
In such cases, adverbs are often used in combination.
Perfective verbs convey a completed action limited in time. Answer the question « What to do?" and, as a rule, include a prefix.
Examples: make, write off, sit down, hide, drink.
They express:
Attention! Exception word - buy. In its perfect form it is used without a prefix: buy.
HB has three temporary forms: past, present and complex future. In all three forms, the result of the action remains unknown:
SV is used in two tenses: past and future.
Examples: closed - will close, beat - will beat, went - left.
In the past tense, verbs are modified by number using the suffix “l” and gender endings.
Example: twist-twist-twist (NSV); twist-twisted-twisted-twisted (SV).
Monospecific means they have the shape of only one of the species. This category includes imperfect verbs that express:
Reference! This also includes verbs with several prefixes: resist, inherit, rewrite.
They indicate an action that is completed or ongoing at the time of speech. The meaning depends on the context.
NE and NV, in special cases, can be expressed in one word without changes: get married (what to do?) – get married (what to do?).
In most cases, verbs are formed from one form, but there are exceptions. For example, catch-catch.
Forms of verbs in Russian.
Why do we need a verb type?
We all know how abundant verb tenses are in the English language. Or in French. Or in Spanish. This has its own unconditional charm - but there are also certain difficulties. How can you remember all this - the past simple, the past continuous, the past connected with the present, the past perfect and imperfect, the preceding... And if we are talking about Romance languages- then to what has been said we must also add a number of forms Modo Subjuntivo/Subjonctif, expressing the same thing, but with the addition of a shade of subjectivity...
In this regard, the Russian language - a drum roll should sound here - is much, well, simply incomparably simpler! We have only three tenses: past, present, future. However, let’s stop the jubilation and think: how could we fully express our thoughts if everything was limited to this? But then we wouldn’t be interested in talking at all!
And so that our thoughts are formed accurately, beautifully, interestingly, diversely - the Russian language has an excellent means: it has a type of verb! And in this sense, the type of verb is ours best friend, and not at all a blood enemy. Contrary to popular belief, the form of the verb was not created in order to hopelessly complicate our life, but in order to make it easier and more beautiful.
What is a verb type and how to learn it?
Forget that verb aspect is a complex grammatical topic. In my life, I taught Russian to several hundred students. Of the most different countries, from all, it seems, continents. And therefore I know that the bulk of the problems with the aspect of the verb can be completely eliminated if the meaning and use of the forms are clearly explained and consolidated from the very beginning. It is important to follow two conditions.
Condition one:
First you need to master and thoroughly consolidate the basics of this grammatical topic, and only then turn to more complex particular cases.
Condition two:
Verb pairs (in the sequence " imperfect species- perfect form” - this is how they will be written in any textbook, grammar manual, etc.) must be memorized. Even if you’re lazy, even if you don’t feel like it, there’s nothing you can do about it. The verb, especially in everyday life, is the organizing center of the sentence. Give him some time already initial stage enough attention - and you will never regret it. Of course, at first we will talk about relatively large quantities verbs (in this case, you need to be able to actively use all grammatical forms, that is, both the imperfect form and the perfect form in the present, past and future tense), but gradually the list should expand.
In this article we will talk about the basics of the topic. "type of verb".
All verbs in Russian have the form: either imperfect (NSV) or perfect (SV). That is, every time you use a verb when constructing a phrase, you choose not only the tense, but also the type of verb. Without aspect, a verb does not exist in Russian!
NSV verbs express an action in the process of its occurrence. SV verbs denote an action limited by a limit (often we define this as “result”).
Compare:
He is reading book(NSV): we imagine a person sitting at a table in a library or at home in a cozy chair. There is an open book in front of him, he runs his eyes page by page - that is, it unfolds before our eyes. process, course of action .
He read book(SV): reading is finished, the book is closed and put aside, perhaps it has already returned to the shelf or to the library. Before us - limit, result, end of action .
That is, when constructing your own sentence with this or that verb, you will first have to decide which type of verb to choose: imperfect or perfect. Thus, the English verb read corresponds to the aspect pair “read (NSV)/read (SV)”. If you want to say something about the process of action, you will form the appropriate form from the infinitive “to read” (NSV); if about a completed action that has a result - from “read” (SV). [An infinitive is the base form of a verb, the form you find in the dictionary].
Let's consider another example with a new species pair: write (NSV)/write (SV).
She writes letter(NSV) - process, course of action: lines appear one after another on a sheet of paper.
She wrote and the letter is two hours(NSV) - before us again is the process of action, but this time it is relegated to the past. From this sentence we learn that for a certain time, a girl unknown to us was sitting with a piece of paper and a pen at the table or in front of the computer. We don't know how this process ended. Was the letter finished? Was it sent to the recipient? The proposal does not provide answers to these questions.
The situation is fundamentally different in the following example:
She wrote letter(SV). This sentence tells us that there is a limit to the action, and a specific result has been achieved: the letter is finished, lies on the table in an envelope, or has already been sent.
In Russian there is a small amount of two-aspect verbs (that is, verbs that can be used both in the meaning of NSV and in the meaning of SV) and a certain number of one-aspect verbs (that is, verbs that do not have an aspect pair and are used only in one form). We will not dwell on them now; it would be somewhat premature. Now we will talk about verbs that form aspectual pairs- because these are the majority of verbs in the Russian language, and at the initial stage it is very important to understand the difference between the perfect and imperfect forms of the verb and learn to use them in speech.
Formation of perfective and imperfective forms
By method of education verbs forming aspect pairs, can be divided into three groups:
2. suffixal, for example: tell - tell
3. suppletive, for example: talk - say
Let's look at each of the groups in more detail.
read - about read write - on write, draw - on draw, draw - on draw, do - With do, photograph - With take pictures, sing - With sing dance - With dance, play - With play, be able to - With be able, be able - With can, is - With eat (something specific; for example, eat an apple), eat - By eat, drink - By drink, drink - You drink (something specific: for example, drink a glass of juice), wash - By wash (or You wash), call - By call, think - By think, knock - By knock, give - By give, kiss - By kiss, have breakfast - By have breakfast, lunch - By have lunch, dinner - By have dinner, get acquainted - By get acquainted, change - By change (or about change), look - By watch, listen - By listen, put - By put, know - at know, see - at see, hear - at hear, cook - at cook, wait - By wait, pay - behind pay (or O to pay) and finally learn - You learn.
Exception: buy (NSV) - buy (SV)!
give - give, get tired - get tired, get up - get up, open - open, forget - forget, tell - tell, show - show, consider - consider, ask - ask, decide - decide, study - study, receive - receive, repeat - repeat, throw - quit, finish - finish, answer - answer, send - send, congratulate - congratulate, understand - understand, hug - hug, start - start, remember - remember, choose - choose. Well, if you have already learned this, then you can rest - rest!
speak - say, take - take, put - put, look - find, catch - catch.
Verb type in present, past and future tense
Already at the initial stage of learning the Russian language, it is very important to understand and remember:
● imperfective verbs have three forms of tense: present, past, future, for example:
I'm reading a magazine;
Yesterday I read a magazine.
● perfect verbs have only two tense forms: past and future, for example:
I read your letter;
Tomorrow I will read your letter.
This is due to the meaning of species: the perfect species denotes an action limited by a limit, and the imperfect species denotes a process. In the present tense we always deal with the process, and never with the result (compare: I read, you look, he eats...). The limit, or result, may either have already been reached (in which case we use the past tense, for example: " He ate an apple"), or will be achieved in the future (then the future tense will be used, for example: " He will eat an apple»).
Basic meanings of verb types
To clearly understand and remember the meanings of verb types in Russian, analyze which of them are in your native language, and which ones you just need to remember.
NSV has three main meanings: the first is “process/duration/duration of action”, the second is “regular/repetitive action” and the third is “fact”, and SV has two - “result” and “one-time use” (we will combine them into one meaning, since the boundary between them is often blurred).
Compare:
The first and second meanings of NSV, as well as the only meaning of SV, usually do not pose any difficulties for foreign students: it is enough to understand the logic once and remember one or two simple examples.
He read and read the novel - and finally read(in the first part of the sentence NSV is used because we're talking about about the process of action; in the second - SV, since the action is over).
He opened and opened the door - and finally opened(same situation: NSV-SV).
In the morning he looks through the newspapers(NSV was used because it describes a regular action).
He will read this book in two days(used SV, future tense: the sentence tells us that in two days the result will be achieved).
He plays tennis every week(regularity = NSV).
In addition, these species meanings may be accompanied by specific words to make it easier to select the desired form. Let's write them in the form of a table:
Difficulties for foreigners are usually caused by the third meaning of the NSV, designated as “fact”. Therefore, I advise you to immediately pay attention to it, listen more and remember how Russians use it, and also reinforce the use of this meaning with a large number of examples. For example:
Last night I washed, soaped dishes, prepared dinner and then watched TV.
During the day I walked to the Hermitage, and then had lunch with a Russian friend in the same cafe.
Thank you, I don't want coffee, I'm already drank coffee this morning.
From these offers you get general information about what your interlocutor was doing. In this case, you are not interested in whether this or that action was completed, whether this or that result was obtained.
It is important to understand that in these sentences it is possible to replace the NSV with the meaning “fact” with the SV with the meaning “result”. In this case, the connotation of the phrase will inevitably change (foreigners often do not take this change in meaning into account). Having said " I did the laundry, washed the dishes, cooked dinner", the Russian means - hurray, I'm done, I'm free! " I went to the Hermitage“- it means I couldn’t get there for a long time, and finally I got there, what a blessing!
After you have learned the species pairs and completed training exercises, you will no longer feel insecure when using verb types. And our professional teachers of Russian as a foreign language will be happy to help you make the process of learning Russian fun and effective. On our website you can choose a teacher and order a free trial lesson with him.
