Уменка
Perfectiveotgadat

отгадать

to guess (correctly), solve (a riddle)

Aspect pairImperfectiveView
отгадыватьguess
Conjugation
1st (e-)
Class
Aspect partner
отгадывать

Future tense#

Future Tense
  • яIотгадаю
  • тыyou (sg)отгадаешь
  • он / она / оноhe / she / itотгадает
  • мыweотгадаем
  • выyou (pl)отгадаете
  • ониtheyотгадают

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

Past tense#

Past Tense
  • онheотгадал
  • онаsheотгадала
  • оноitотгадало
  • ониtheyотгадали

Imperative#

Imperative

to one person

отгадай

to a group / formal

отгадайте

Participles & verbal adverbs#

Participles
  • Active pastотгадавший
  • Passive pastотгаданный
  • Adverbial (past)отгадав

Used with#

  • + acc

    + accusative (direct object)

Examples#

  • Отгадай загадку: что утром на четырёх ногах, в обед на двух?

    Solve the riddle: what walks on four legs in the morning, two at noon?

  • Я отгадал все вопросы викторины.

    I got all the quiz questions right.

About this verb#

  • Perfective of отгадывать. Class 1a -ать with fixed suffix stress (отгадаю). The от- prefix here gives a 'successfully completed' reading: guessing all the way through to the answer.

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