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PerfectiveTop 10skazat

сказать

say, tell, speak

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Aspect pairImperfectiveView
говоритьspeak, talk gapirish
Conjugation
1st (e-)
Class
Stress
Shifting
Aspect partner
говорить

Future tense#

Future Tense
  • яIскажу
  • тыyou (sg)скажешь
  • он / она / оноhe / she / itскажет
  • мыweскажем
  • выyou (pl)скажете
  • ониtheyскажут

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

Past tense#

Past Tense
  • онheсказал
  • онаsheсказала
  • оноitсказало
  • ониtheyсказали

Imperative#

Imperative

to one person

скажи

to a group / formal

скажите

Participles & verbal adverbs#

Participles
  • Active pastсказавший
  • Passive pastсказанный
  • Adverbial (past)сказав, сказавши

Used with#

  • + Acc

    Он сказал правду.

    + accusative (direct object)

Examples#

  • Он сказал правду.

    He told the truth.

  • Скажи маме, что я опоздаю.

    Tell mom that I'll be late.

About this verb#

  • Perfective half of the suppletive pair говорить ↔ сказать: different roots, shared meaning. Class 6c with з → ж mutation throughout the simple-future paradigm (скажу, скажешь, скажут) and shifting c-stress.

With prefixes#

Prefixes

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