Уменка
Perfectivepoboltat

поболтать

chat a bit, have a chat

Aspect pairImperfectiveView
болтатьchat
Conjugation
1st (e-)
Class
Aspect partner
болтать

Future tense#

Future Tense
  • яIпоболтаю
  • тыyou (sg)поболтаешь
  • он / она / оноhe / she / itпоболтает
  • мыweпоболтаем
  • выyou (pl)поболтаете
  • ониtheyпоболтают

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

Past tense#

Past Tense
  • онheпоболтал
  • онаsheпоболтала
  • оноitпоболтало
  • ониtheyпоболтали

Imperative#

Imperative

to one person

поболтай

to a group / formal

поболтайте

Participles & verbal adverbs#

Participles
  • Active pastпоболтавший
  • Adverbial (past)поболтав

Used with#

  • с + instr; о + prep

    с + instr; о + prep

Examples#

  • Мы немного поболтали за чашкой кофе.

    We chatted a bit over a cup of coffee.

  • Давай поболтаем по телефону вечером.

    Let's chat on the phone in the evening.

About this verb#

  • Delimitative perfective formed with по-: 'chat for a (limited) while.' Class 1a regular -ать with fixed stem stress. Like other по-delimitatives, it has no straightforward imperfective partner; болтать itself is the simplex it bounds.

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