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impf/pfTop 500pochitat

почитать

read, honour, respect

Other meaningsesteem, revere, hold sacred, consider, think

Biaspectual

The same form serves as both imperfective and perfective, with no separate aspect partner.

Conjugation
1st (e-)
Class
Aspect partner
No partner

Future tense#

Future Tense
  • яIпочитаю
  • тыyou (sg)почитаешь
  • он / она / оноhe / she / itпочитает
  • мыweпочитаем
  • выyou (pl)почитаете
  • ониtheyпочитают

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

Past tense#

Past Tense
  • онheпочитал
  • онаsheпочитала
  • оноitпочитало
  • ониtheyпочитали

Imperative#

Imperative

to one person

почитай

to a group / formal

почитайте

Participles & verbal adverbs#

Participles
  • Active pastпочитавший
  • Passive pastпочитанный
  • Adverbial (past)почитав, почитавши

Used with#

  • + Acc

    Я почитаю тебе сказку.

    + accusative (direct object)

Examples#

  • Я почитаю тебе сказку.

    I'll read you a fairy tale.

  • Они почитают старые традиции.

    They honour the old traditions.

About this verb#

  • Class 1a with fixed stem stress (почитаю, почитаешь, почитают). Biaspectual when meaning 'honor, revere'; as a delimitative perfective of читать it means 'do some reading'. Same paradigm in both readings.

With prefixes#

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