russian word
to go, ride, drive in Russian: ехать
verbimperfectivelevel A1#560 by frequency
every form stress-marked · levels from the official TORFL lexical minimum
Завтра мы едем в деревню к бабушке. Tomorrow we are going to the village to grandmother's.
Автобус ехал вдоль реки, и за окном я видел поля. The bus was driving along the river, and I saw fields out the window.
Не могу говорить: я еду в Москву на поезде. I can't talk, I am riding the train to Moscow right now.
Завтра мы едем в театр на новый спектакль. Tomorrow we are going to the theater to see a new show.
Aspect pair
This verb is imperfective: ongoing or repeated action. Its perfective partner, for a completed one-time result, is
Conjugation of ехать
Stress marks show the stressed vowel; it moves between forms more often than learners expect.
| present | singular | plural |
|---|---|---|
| я / мы | еду | едем |
| ты / вы | едешь | едете |
| он / они | едет | едут |
| past | |
|---|---|
| masc | ехал |
| fem | ехала |
| neut | ехало |
| plural | ехали |
| imperative | |
|---|---|
| ты | езжай |
| вы | езжайте |
Participles and gerunds
present activeедущий
past activeехавший
gerund (imperfective)едучи
gerund (perfective)ехав
gerund (perfective)ехавши