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Perfectiveodolzhit

одолжить

to lend

Other meaningsto borrow

Aspect pairImperfectiveView
одалживатьTo Lend
Conjugation
2nd (и-)
Class
Aspect partner
одалживать

Future tense#

Future Tense
  • яIодолжу
  • тыyou (sg)одолжишь
  • он / она / оноhe / she / itодолжит
  • мыweодолжим
  • выyou (pl)одолжите
  • ониtheyодолжат

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

Past tense#

Past Tense
  • онheодолжил
  • онаsheодолжила
  • оноitодолжило
  • ониtheyодолжили

Imperative#

Imperative

to one person

одолжи

to a group / formal

одолжите

Participles & verbal adverbs#

Participles
  • Active pastодолживший
  • Passive pastодолжённый
  • Adverbial (past)одолжив

Used with#

  • + Acc + Dat (lend) / у + Gen (borrow)

    + Acc + Dat (lend) / у + Gen (borrow)

Examples#

  • Я одолжил другу сто рублей.

    I lent my friend a hundred rubles.

  • Можно одолжить у тебя книгу?

    Can I borrow a book from you?

About this verb#

  • Prefixed perfective from долг ('debt') with о-. Class 4b, with end-stress throughout (одолжу, одолжишь, одолжат). Notable bidirectional semantics: 'lend (to someone)' and 'borrow (from someone)' depending on construction. Aspect partner одалживать has the alternated о/а vowel typical of -ива- imperfectives.

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