Уменка
Perfectivepogibnut

погибнуть

perish, die (violently / tragically)

Other meaningsbe killed

Aspect pairImperfectiveView
гибнутьget killed, die
Conjugation
1st (e-)
Class
Aspect partner
гибнуть

Future tense#

Future Tense
  • яIпогибну
  • тыyou (sg)погибнешь
  • он / она / оноhe / she / itпогибнет
  • мыweпогибнем
  • выyou (pl)погибнете
  • ониtheyпогибнут

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

Past tense#

Past Tense
  • онheпогиб
  • онаsheпогибла
  • оноitпогибло
  • ониtheyпогибли

Imperative#

Imperative

to one person

погибни

to a group / formal

погибните

Participles & verbal adverbs#

Participles
  • Active pastпогибший
  • Adverbial (past)погибнув

Used with#

  • от + gen

    от + genitive (from, away from)

Examples#

  • В катастрофе погибли двадцать человек.

    Twenty people died in the catastrophe.

  • Без воды цветы погибнут за неделю.

    Without water the flowers will die in a week.

About this verb#

  • Perfective of гибнуть. Class 3a with fixed stem stress and the characteristic -ну- drop in the masculine past (погиб, not *погибнул); the suffix returns in feminine/neuter/plural (погибла). The participle погибший is the standard term for 'the deceased' in tragic contexts.

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