Уменка
Perfectivesbezhat

сбежать

run away, flee

Other meaningsrun down (from)

Aspect pairImperfectiveView
сбегатьescape, run away, flee
Conjugation
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Class
Stress
Irregular
Aspect partner
сбегать

Future tense#

Irregular Verbs
  • яIсбегу
  • тыyou (sg)сбежишь
  • он / она / оноhe / she / itсбежит
  • мыweсбежим
  • выyou (pl)сбежите
  • ониtheyсбегут

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

Past tense#

Past Tense
  • онheсбежал
  • онаsheсбежала
  • оноitсбежало
  • ониtheyсбежали

Imperative#

Imperative

to one person

сбеги

to a group / formal

сбегите

Participles & verbal adverbs#

Participles
  • Active pastсбежавший
  • Adverbial (past)сбежав

Used with#

  • от + gen; с + gen

    от + gen; с + gen

Examples#

  • Заключённый сбежал из тюрьмы.

    The prisoner escaped from jail.

  • Дети сбежали с лестницы во двор.

    The children ran down the stairs into the yard.

About this verb#

  • Perfective of сбегать, built on бежать, one of the canonical Russian irregular verbs with mixed conjugation: 1sg сбегу and 3pl сбегут (1st-conjugation type), but сбежишь, сбежит, сбежим, сбежите (2nd-conjugation type). Senses cleanly split by preposition: 'от/из + gen' = flee; 'с + gen' = run down from.

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