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#
Imperativeto 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.
Practice
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