Уменка
Perfectivevozvratit

возвратить

return (something), give back

Other meaningsrestore

Aspect pairImperfectiveView
возвращатьreturn, give back, bring back
Conjugation
2nd (и-)
Class
Aspect partner
возвращать

Future tense#

Future Tense
  • яIвозвращу
  • тыyou (sg)возвратишь
  • он / она / оноhe / she / itвозвратит
  • мыweвозвратим
  • выyou (pl)возвратите
  • ониtheyвозвратят

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

Past tense#

Past Tense
  • онheвозвратил
  • онаsheвозвратила
  • оноitвозвратило
  • ониtheyвозвратили

Imperative#

Imperative

to one person

возврати

to a group / formal

возвратите

Participles & verbal adverbs#

Participles
  • Active pastвозвративший
  • Passive pastвозвращённый
  • Adverbial (past)возвратив

Used with#

  • + acc (+ dat)

    + acc (+ dat)

Examples#

  • Я возвратил ему долг на следующий день.

    I returned his loan to him the next day.

  • Магазин возвратил деньги за неис­правный товар.

    The shop refunded the money for the defective goods.

About this verb#

  • Class 4b -ить with т → щ mutation in 1sg (возвращу); the imperfective возвращать keeps -щ- throughout. More formal than the everyday synonym вернуть, which often replaces it in speech.

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