Уменка
Perfectiveporabotat

поработать

work (for a while)

Aspect pairImperfectiveView
работатьwork, operate
Conjugation
1st (e-)
Class
Aspect partner
работать

Future tense#

Future Tense
  • яIпоработаю
  • тыyou (sg)поработаешь
  • он / она / оноhe / she / itпоработает
  • мыweпоработаем
  • выyou (pl)поработаете
  • ониtheyпоработают

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

Past tense#

Past Tense
  • онheпоработал
  • онаsheпоработала
  • оноitпоработало
  • ониtheyпоработали

Imperative#

Imperative

to one person

поработай

to a group / formal

поработайте

Participles & verbal adverbs#

Participles
  • Active pastпоработавший
  • Adverbial (past)поработав

Examples#

  • Я поработаю ещё час и пойду домой.

    I'll work for another hour and then go home.

  • Он несколько лет поработал в Берлине.

    He worked in Berlin for several years.

About this verb#

  • Delimitative perfective of работать with prefix по-: 'do some work, work for a while'. Atelic: the action has duration but no inherent endpoint reached. Plain class 1a conjugation with fixed stem stress on работ-.

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