russian word
to speak in Russian: говорить
verbimperfectivelevel A1#58 by frequency
every form stress-marked · levels from the official TORFL lexical minimum
Она говорит на трёх языках. She speaks three languages.
Мой брат хорошо говорит по-английски. My brother speaks English well.
Мы говорили о работе. We were talking about work.
Он всегда говорит правду. He always tells the truth.
What does говорить mean in Russian?
Aspect pair
This verb is imperfective: ongoing or repeated action. Its perfective partner, for a completed one-time result, is
Conjugation of говорить
Stress marks show the stressed vowel; it moves between forms more often than learners expect.
| present | singular | plural |
|---|---|---|
| я / мы | говорю | говорим |
| ты / вы | говоришь | говорите |
| он / они | говорит | говорят |
| past | |
|---|---|
| masc | говорил |
| fem | говорила |
| neut | говорило |
| plural | говорили |
| imperative | |
|---|---|
| ты | говори |
| вы | говорите |
Participles and gerunds
present activeговорящий
past activeговоривший
present passiveговоримый
past passiveговорённый
gerund (imperfective)говоря
gerund (perfective)говорив
gerund (perfective)говоривши