Уменка
Perfectivesygrat

сыграть

play (a game, a piece, a role)

Aspect pairImperfectiveView
игратьplay, act, perform
Conjugation
1st (e-)
Class
Aspect partner
играть

Future tense#

Future Tense
  • яIсыграю
  • тыyou (sg)сыграешь
  • он / она / оноhe / she / itсыграет
  • мыweсыграем
  • выyou (pl)сыграете
  • ониtheyсыграют

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

Past tense#

Past Tense
  • онheсыграл
  • онаsheсыграла
  • оноitсыграло
  • ониtheyсыграли

Imperative#

Imperative

to one person

сыграй

to a group / formal

сыграйте

Participles & verbal adverbs#

Participles
  • Active pastсыгравший
  • Passive pastсыгранный
  • Adverbial (past)сыграв

Used with#

  • + acc; в + acc; на + prep

    + acc; в + acc; на + prep

Examples#

  • Давай сыграем в шахматы!

    Let's play a game of chess!

  • Она блестяще сыграла роль Анны Карениной.

    She played the role of Anna Karenina brilliantly.

About this verb#

  • Perfective of играть with prefix с-; note the spelling rule that turns и to ы after a hard prefix-final consonant (с + играть → сыграть). Otherwise an entirely regular class 1a verb with fixed stem stress. Government depends on sense: в + accusative for games (в шахматы), на + prepositional for instruments (на скрипке).

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