russian word

to give, hand over in Russian: давать

verbimperfectivelevel A1#262 by frequency

every form stress-marked · levels from the official TORFL lexical minimum

What does давать mean in Russian?

Не давай ему денег.

Don't give him money.

Бабушка всегда даёт нам конфеты.

Grandma always gives us candy.

Шум за стеной не даёт мне спать.

The noise behind the wall doesn't let me sleep.

Don't let the children play on the road.

This verb is imperfective: ongoing or repeated action. Its perfective partner, for a completed one-time result, is

Stress marks show the stressed vowel; it moves between forms more often than learners expect.

imperative
ты	давай
вы	давайте

present activeдающий

past activeдававший

present passiveдаваемый

gerund (imperfective)давая

gerund (perfective)давав

gerund (perfective)дававши