Уменка
Perfectivenapast

напасть

attack, assault

Other meaningscome over (of feelings)

Aspect pairImperfectiveView
нападатьattack, assault, come
Conjugation
1st (e-)
Class
Stress
Irregular
Aspect partner
нападать

Future tense#

Future Tense
  • яIнападу
  • тыyou (sg)нападёшь
  • он / она / оноhe / she / itнападёт
  • мыweнападём
  • выyou (pl)нападёте
  • ониtheyпадут

Perfective verbs form a simple future that takes present-tense endings but describes a completed action.

Past tense#

Past Tense
  • онheнапал
  • онаsheнапала
  • оноitнапало
  • ониtheyнапали

Imperative#

Imperative

to one person

напади

to a group / formal

нападите

Participles & verbal adverbs#

Participles
  • Active pastнапавший
  • Adverbial (past)напав

Used with#

  • на + acc

    на + accusative (at, onto)

Examples#

  • Волки напали на стадо ночью.

    Wolves attacked the herd at night.

  • На него напала странная тоска.

    A strange melancholy came over him.

About this verb#

  • Perfective of нападать, of the пасть family. Class 8 consonant-stem -сть: present-future stem напад- with end-stress (нападу, нападёшь). The past drops the д (напал). Selects 'на + accusative' for the target.

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