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The Big Silver Book of Russian Verbs THEBIG SILVER BOOK OF RUSSIAN VERBS 555 FULLY CONJUGATED VERBS Jack E. Franke, Ph.D. Copyright © 2005 by Jack Franke. All rights reserved. Manufactured in the United States of America. Except as permitted under the United States Copyright Act of 1976, no part of this publication may be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the publisher. 0-07-146003-9 The material in this eBook also appears in the print version of this title: 0-07-143299-X. All trademarks are trademarks of their respective owners. Rather than put a trademark symbol after every occurrence of a trademarked name, we use names in an editorial fashion only, and to the benefit of the trademark owner, with no intention of infringement of the trademark. Where such designations appear in this book, they have been printed with initial caps. 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Big Silver pp i-iv 10/28/04 1:08 PM Page iii For more information about this title, click here Contents Russian Tense Profiles 1 ț Easy-to-view summaries of formation and uses of each tense The Basics of Conjugation 2 The Persons of the Verb 2 The Stem 3 Verbal Aspect 4 Tense 5 Conjugation 6 Mood 6 The Present Tense 7 The Past Tense 15 The Future Tense 17 The Subjunctive Mood 19 Participles 20 Verbal Adverbs 25 Commands (The Imperative) 26 Reflexive Verbs 27 Verbs of Motion 28 The Multidirectional Verb of Motion 28 The Unidirectional Verb of Motion 29 The Prefixed Verb of Motion 30 The Verb of Motion by Vehicle 31 Russian Motion Verb Index 32 555 Fully Conjugated Verbs 33 ț Alphabetically ordered with examples of common use Top 50 Verbs: Full page of examples adjoining select conjugations Verb Exercises 642 ț Drills to test and improve your grasp of correct verb forms Answers to Exercises 647 English-Russian Verb Index 648 ț 555 verb models cross-referenced by their English meaning Irregular Verb Index 654 ț Index showing the infinitive of irregular Russian verb forms Russian Verb Index 657 ț More than 2,000 verbs cross-referenced to the full verb models iii Big Silver pp i-iv 10/28/04 1:08 PM Page iv Preface The Big Silver Book of Russian Verbs is intended for use with all major Russian language text- books in any course from the first through the fourth years, or separately as a reference for inde- pendent study. This book is comprised of verbs from the most popular textbooks in use today, as well as reflecting frequency usage in contemporary Russian. The aim of this book is to provide students with a single reference that they can turn to for questions on conjugation, stems, collo- cations, and usage. I am grateful to the following professors for their efforts in promoting Russian, and those who provided me the foundation and inspiration to write this book: Ronni Gordon, David Stillman, Jean Rose, Norma Barr, William Lewis, Gerald Earvin, Sophia Lubensky, Benjamin Rifkin, Thomas Garza, Charles McDowell, Nina Aleksandrovna Lubimova, and Anto Knezevic. I would like to express my appreciation to two colleagues who typed large portions of this manuscript: Stephanie Rodriguez and John S. Holsonbach. Numerous references were consulted in the preparation of this book. These include: The Russian Verb: Prepositional and Non-Prepositional Government (Andreyeva Georg and Tolma- chova, Moscow: Russky yazyk Publishers, 1983) was used for verbal government. Fundamentals of Russian Verbal Government for Students and Teachers (Thomas J. Garza, Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt Publishing, 1994) was incorporated for the Jackobsonian one-stem verbal stem system. Complete Handbook of Russian Verbs (L.I. Pirogova, Lincolnwood, Illinois: Passport Books, 1995) served as a basis to simplify Russian verbal conjugations into six classes and irregular verbs. Bol’shoi Tolkovyj Slovar’ Russkogo Yazyka (S.A. Kuznetsov, St. Petersburg: Norint, 1998) provided numerous contemporary examples and usage in the modern, post-soviet Russian language. Russian-English Dictionary of Idioms (Sophia Lubensky, New York: Random House, 1995) was used to verify the collocations and phraseology of many of the idioms. I would also like to thank my agent, Danielle Jatlow, at Waterside Productions. Посвящается моей жене Людмиле. Copyright © 2005 by Jack Franke. Click here for terms of use. RUSSIAN TENSE PROFILES Copyright © 2005 by Jack Franke. Click here for terms of use. Big Silver pp 001-033-v3 10/28/04 1:17 PM Page 2 2 THE BASICS OF CONJUGATION THE BASICS OF CONJUGATION The verb is the most important part of speech in the Russian language. Quite frankly, 'to be' or 'not to be' is out of the question without a verb. The number of verbs in the Russian language is vast and amorphous, and it is important that English-speaking students learn the nuances and idiosyncrasies of the Russian verbal system. This system is predicated on the existence of the following: 1) The Persons of the Verb 2) The infinitive 3) The stem 4) Verbal Aspect 5) Tense 6) Conjugation 7) Mood These concepts are summarized below. Acquaint yourself with them before proceeding to the profiles of each tense. The Persons of the Verb in English SINGULAR PLURAL FIRST PERSON Iwe SECOND PERSON you you THIRD PERSON he, she, it they The Persons of the Verb in Russian The subject pronouns in Russian correspond similarly to the English system. SINGULAR PLURAL FIRST PERSON ямы SECOND PERSON ты, вы вы THIRD PERSON он, она , оно они Note the following: 1·ты is the informal usage for you. It is used with family members, children, close friends, and pets. When Russians wish to speak informally to one another for the fist time, they say, “Давайте будем на ты.” 2·The Russian has two forms for you. They vary according to formality and number. Ты is informal singular, вы is formal singular and informal plural. Вы is the marker of formality, politeness, and seniority. Whenever you are in doubt about which form to use, err on the side of caution and use the polite form (Вы) unless you are speak- ing to a child or a pet. The Infinitive The infinitive is the form of the verb that is typically show in dictionaries; it is not conju- gated. You can recognize the infinitive by its ending: -ть, -ти, or -чь. In English a verb beginning with “to” is an infinitive. The infinitive is made up of the stem and its ending. THE STEM 3 The Russian Spelling Rule In determining whether the first person singular ending is -ю or -у, or the third person plural ending is -ят or -ат, it is important to memorize the spelling rule that г, к, х, ж, ч, ш, ш, ц are followed by а, у, but never я, ю. The reason is that these consonants are con- sidered hard, and therefore can not be followed by the soft vowels я, ю. The Stem The one-stem system of Russian verbal conjugation is used throughout this book. This system was created by the world reknowned Russian-American scholar Roman Jakobson.
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