Future tense#
Future Tense- яIспою
- тыyou (sg)споёшь
- он / она / оноhe / she / itспоёт
- мыweспоём
- выyou (pl)споёте
- ониtheyспоют
Perfective verbs form a simple future that takes present-tense endings but describes a completed action.
Past tense#
Past Tense- онheспел
- онаsheспела
- оноitспело
- ониtheyспели
Imperative#
Imperativeto one person
спой
to a group / formal
спойте
Participles & verbal adverbs#
Participles- Active pastспевший
- Passive pastспетый
- Adverbial (past)спев
Used with#
- + acc
+ accusative (direct object)
Examples#
Спой нам какую-нибудь песню!
Sing us a song!
Хор спел гимн в начале церемонии.
The choir sang the anthem at the start of the ceremony.
About this verb#
- Perfective of петь with prefix с-. Class 12 with the diphthong-stem -по-: infinitive in -еть but the present-future on -о- (спою, споёшь). Don't confuse спеть 'sing through' with спеть 'ripen', which has a different class-1a paradigm (спею, спеешь).
Practice
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