Уменка
Perfectiveuznat

узнать

find out, learn, recognise

Aspect pairImperfectiveView
узнаватьrecognize
Conjugation
1st (e-)
Class
Aspect partner
узнавать

Future tense#

Future Tense
  • яIузнаю
  • тыyou (sg)узнаешь
  • он / она / оноhe / she / itузнает
  • мыweузнаем
  • выyou (pl)узнаете
  • ониtheyузнают

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

Past tense#

Past Tense
  • онheузнал
  • онаsheузнала
  • оноitузнало
  • ониtheyузнали

Imperative#

Imperative

to one person

узнай

to a group / formal

узнайте

Participles & verbal adverbs#

Participles
  • Active pastузнавший
  • Passive pastузнанный
  • Adverbial (past)узнав

Used with#

  • + acc

    + accusative (direct object)

Examples#

  • Я узнал об этом случайно.

    I found out about it by chance.

  • Ты её не узнаешь — она сильно изменилась.

    You won't recognise her; she has changed a lot.

About this verb#

  • Perfective partner of узнавать (impf. of the same root) for the senses 'find out, learn, recognise'. Pairs paradigmatically with знать but with a clearly perfective meaning: a single act of acquiring information or identifying. Regular class 1a stem узна-: present-future endings -ю, -ешь with fixed stem stress.

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