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Perfectivepodobrat

подобрать

pick up

Other meaningsselect, choose, match (the right one)

Aspect pairImperfectiveView
подбиратьpick up, tuck up, sort out
Conjugation
1st (e-)
Class
Aspect partner
подбирать

Future tense#

Future Tense
  • яIподберу
  • тыyou (sg)подберёшь
  • он / она / оноhe / she / itподберёт
  • мыweподберём
  • выyou (pl)подберёте
  • ониtheyподберут

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

Past tense#

Past Tense
  • онheподобрал
  • онаsheподобрала
  • оноitподобрало
  • ониtheyподобрали

Imperative#

Imperative

to one person

подбери

to a group / formal

подберите

Participles & verbal adverbs#

Participles
  • Active pastподобравший
  • Passive pastподобранный
  • Adverbial (past)подобрав

Used with#

  • + acc

    + accusative (direct object)

Examples#

  • Я подобрал ключи, которые ты уронил.

    I picked up the keys you dropped.

  • Стилист подберёт правильный цвет.

    The stylist will pick the right colour.

About this verb#

  • Perfective of подбирать, part of the брать-family with truncated -бр- present stem and the same vowel alternation as разорвать. Class 7b with end-stress throughout the present-future (подберу, подберёшь). Past feminine takes ending stress: подобрала.

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