Уменка
Perfectivepoiskat

поискать

look for (for a while), have a look for

Aspect pairImperfectiveView
искатьlook for, search, seek
Conjugation
1st (e-)
Class
Stress
Shifting
Aspect partner
искать

Future tense#

Future Tense
  • яIпоищу
  • тыyou (sg)поищешь
  • он / она / оноhe / she / itпоищет
  • мыweпоищем
  • выyou (pl)поищете
  • ониtheyпоищут

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

Past tense#

Past Tense
  • онheпоискал
  • онаsheпоискала
  • оноitпоискало
  • ониtheyпоискали

Imperative#

Imperative

to one person

поищи

to a group / formal

поищите

Participles & verbal adverbs#

Participles
  • Active pastпоискавший
  • Adverbial (past)поискав

Used with#

  • + acc; + gen

    + acc; + gen

Examples#

  • Поищи ключи в кармане.

    Have a look for the keys in your pocket.

  • Я поищу эту книгу в библиотеке.

    I'll look for this book in the library.

About this verb#

  • Delimitative perfective of искать. Class 6c with the throughout-present ск→щ mutation (поищу, поищешь, поищут), the same as in puskat'/pustit but here it applies to every form. Stress moves: end-stress in 1sg, stem from 2sg. Object can be accusative (concrete) or genitive (abstract / partitive).

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