покачать

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

• онheпокачал
• онаsheпокачала
• оноitпокачало
• ониtheyпокачали

• Active pastпокачавший
• Passive pastпокачанный
• Adverbial (past)покачав

• + acc; + instr

  + acc; + instr

• Мама покачала младенца, и он заснул.

  Mum rocked the baby for a bit and he fell asleep.

• Он только покачал головой в ответ.

  He just shook his head in reply.

• Delimitative perfective of качать with по-. Class 1a -ать with regular conjugation. The idiomatic покачать головой ('shake one's head') is the most frequent collocation; the instrumental marks the body part performing the motion.

• знать[1a]know, be aware, be acquainted
• иметь[1a]have
• сделать[1a]make
• делать[1a]make, do
• думать[1a]think, consider, reflect
• работать[1a]work, operate