russian word
to look, gaze in Russian: глядеть
verbimperfectivelevel B2#554 by frequency
every form stress-marked · levels from the official TORFL lexical minimum
Она долго глядела в окно и молчала. She gazed out of the window for a long time and said nothing.
Не гляди на меня так, я ни в чём не виноват. Don't look at me like that, I'm not guilty of anything.
Aspect pair
This verb is imperfective: ongoing or repeated action. Its perfective partner, for a completed one-time result, is
поглядетьto take a look, to have a look (at something for a while)perfective
Conjugation of глядеть
Stress marks show the stressed vowel; it moves between forms more often than learners expect.
| present | singular | plural |
|---|---|---|
| я / мы | гляжу | глядим |
| ты / вы | глядишь | глядите |
| он / они | глядит | глядят |
| past | |
|---|---|
| masc | глядел |
| fem | глядела |
| neut | глядело |
| plural | глядели |
| imperative | |
|---|---|
| ты | гляди |
| вы | глядите |
Participles and gerunds
present activeглядящий
past activeглядевший
gerund (imperfective)глядя
gerund (imperfective)глядя
gerund (imperfective)глядючи
gerund (perfective)глядев
gerund (perfective)глядевши