Уменка
Perfectiveuspokoitsya

успокоиться

calm down, settle down (oneself)

Aspect pairImperfectiveView
успокаиватьсяabate
Conjugation
2nd (и-)
Class

Future tense#

Reflexive Verbs
  • яIуспокоюсь
  • тыyou (sg)успокоишься
  • он / она / оноhe / she / itуспокоится
  • мыweуспокоимся
  • выyou (pl)успокоитесь
  • ониtheyуспокоятся

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

Past tense#

Past Tense
  • онheуспокоился
  • онаsheуспокоилась
  • оноitуспокоилось
  • ониtheyуспокоились

Imperative#

Imperative

to one person

успокойся

to a group / formal

успокойтесь

Participles & verbal adverbs#

Participles
  • Active pastуспокоившийся
  • Adverbial (past)успокоившись

Examples#

  • Успокойся, всё будет хорошо.

    Calm down, everything will be fine.

  • К вечеру море успокоилось.

    By evening the sea had calmed.

About this verb#

  • Reflexive partner of успокоить. Class 4a -ить, no consonant mutation (й stays in the stem), fixed stem stress. The imperative успокойся! is the standard 'calm down' formula. Same pattern as the transitive verb minus the agent-on-patient meaning.

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