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сесть

sit down

Aspect pairImperfectiveView
садитьсяsit down, sit up, take
Conjugation
1st (e-)
Class
Aspect partner
садиться

Future tense#

Future Tense
  • яIсяду
  • тыyou (sg)сядешь
  • он / она / оноhe / she / itсядет
  • мыweсядем
  • выyou (pl)сядете
  • ониtheyсядут

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

Past tense#

Past Tense
  • онheсел
  • онаsheсела
  • оноitсело
  • ониtheyсели

Imperative#

Imperative

to one person

сядь

to a group / formal

сядьте

Participles & verbal adverbs#

Participles
  • Active pastсевший
  • Adverbial (past)сев, севши

Examples#

  • Садись, пожалуйста.

    Have a seat, please.

  • Мы сели в поезд в Берлине.

    We boarded the train in Berlin.

About this verb#

  • Class 7a perfective with a suppletive past stem (сел: сел, села, село, сели). The simple future looks like a present but uses a different stem (сяд-): сяду, сядешь, сядут. Aspect partner is the regular reflexive садиться.

With prefixes#

Prefixes
  • засестьpfsit down, set, stick, stick fast, sit firm, settle, establish oneself, consolidate
  • насестьpfpile in, sit down (in large numbers); settle, deposit (dust); descend on, badger, pressure
  • обсестьpfsit round, encircle sitting
  • осестьpfsettle, sink, subside, accumulate
  • пересестьpftake another seat, change places, exchange seats
  • подсестьpftake a seat, sit down; to get hooked on
  • присестьpfto sit down

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