Уменка
Perfectivepobegat

побегать

run around (for a while), go for a run

Aspect pairImperfectiveView
бегатьrun, run about, be shifty
Conjugation
1st (e-)
Class
Aspect partner
бегать

Future tense#

Future Tense
  • яIпобегаю
  • тыyou (sg)побегаешь
  • он / она / оноhe / she / itпобегает
  • мыweпобегаем
  • выyou (pl)побегаете
  • ониtheyпобегают

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

Past tense#

Past Tense
  • онheпобегал
  • онаsheпобегала
  • оноitпобегало
  • ониtheyпобегали

Imperative#

Imperative

to one person

побегай

to a group / formal

побегайте

Participles & verbal adverbs#

Participles
  • Active pastпобегавший
  • Adverbial (past)побегав

Examples#

  • Я побегал утром в парке.

    I went for a run in the park this morning.

  • Дети побегали и усталои сели на скамейку.

    The children ran about for a while and then tired-out sat down on a bench.

About this verb#

  • Delimitative perfective of multidirectional бегать (not unidirectional бежать!): a bounded period of running about in no particular direction. Plain class 1a, stem-stressed throughout. Don't confuse with побежать, which is the ingressive perfective of unidirectional бежать.

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