russian word
to sing in Russian: петь
verbimperfectivelevel A1#828 by frequency
every form stress-marked · levels from the official TORFL lexical minimum
Она прекрасно поёт и играет на гитаре. She sings beautifully and plays the guitar.
Дети любят петь эту песню по утрам. The children love to sing this song in the mornings.
Aspect pair
This verb is imperfective: ongoing or repeated action. Its perfective partner, for a completed one-time result, is
пропетьto sing (a song or tune) through, to sing outperfective
Conjugation of петь
Stress marks show the stressed vowel; it moves between forms more often than learners expect.
| present | singular | plural |
|---|---|---|
| я / мы | пою | поём |
| ты / вы | поёшь | поёте |
| он / они | поёт | поют |
| past | |
|---|---|
| masc | пел |
| fem | пела |
| neut | пело |
| plural | пели |
| imperative | |
|---|---|
| ты | пой |
| вы | пойте |
Participles and gerunds
present activeпоющий
past activeпевший
past passiveпетый
gerund (imperfective)поя
gerund (perfective)пев
gerund (perfective)певши