Future tense#
Future Tense- яIнаберу
- тыyou (sg)наберёшь
- он / она / оноhe / she / itнаберёт
- мыweнаберём
- выyou (pl)наберёте
- ониtheyнаберут
Perfective verbs form a simple future that takes present-tense endings but describes a completed action.
Past tense#
Past Tense- онheнабрал
- онаsheнабрала
- оноitнабрало
- ониtheyнабрали
Imperative#
Imperativeto one person
набери
to a group / formal
наберите
Participles & verbal adverbs#
Participles- Active pastнабравший
- Passive pastнабранный
- Adverbial (past)набрав
Used with#
- + Acc
+ accusative (direct object)
Examples#
Я набрал номер, но никто не ответил.
I dialed the number but no one answered.
Она набрала пять кило за зиму.
She gained five kilos over the winter.
About this verb#
- Prefixed perfective from -брать ('take/gather') with на-. Class 6b, with future stem -бер- carrying end-stress (наберу, наберёшь, наберут) and 'fleeting' о/е alternation: набра- in past/inf, набер- in future. Mobile past stress: набрал but набрала (feminine end-stress). Passive participle набранный with retracted prefix stress. Very polysemic verb.
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