послушать

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

• онheпослушал
• онаsheпослушала
• оноitпослушало
• ониtheyпослушали

• Active pastпослушавший
• Passive pastпослушанный
• Adverbial (past)послушав

• + acc

  + accusative (direct object)

• Послушай эту песню — тебе понравится.

  Have a listen to this song; you'll like it.

• Мы послушали лекцию и пошли домой.

  We listened to the lecture and then went home.

• Perfective of слушать with prefix по-. Often delimitative ('listen for a while'), but also a default perfective in many contexts. Class 1a, fixed stress on послуш-. The imperative послушай also functions as a discourse particle: 'listen,...'

• 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