Уменка
Perfectivepoobedat

пообедать

have lunch, have dinner

Aspect pairImperfectiveView
обедатьdine
Conjugation
1st (e-)
Class
Aspect partner
обедать

Future tense#

Future Tense
  • яIпообедаю
  • тыyou (sg)пообедаешь
  • он / она / оноhe / she / itпообедает
  • мыweпообедаем
  • выyou (pl)пообедаете
  • ониtheyпообедают

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

Past tense#

Past Tense
  • онheпообедал
  • онаsheпообедала
  • оноitпообедало
  • ониtheyпообедали

Imperative#

Imperative

to one person

пообедай

to a group / formal

пообедайте

Participles & verbal adverbs#

Participles
  • Active pastпообедавший
  • Adverbial (past)пообедав

Examples#

  • Мы пообедали в маленьком кафе.

    We had lunch in a small cafe.

  • Сначала пообедаем, а потом пойдём гулять.

    Let's have lunch first and then go for a walk.

About this verb#

  • Standard perfective of обедать with prefix по-. Class 1a, completely regular, fixed stem stress. Note that обедать covers the main midday meal: historically lunch in modern Russia but dinner in earlier 19th-century usage.

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