russian word
to write, compose in Russian: писать
every form stress-marked · levels from the official TORFL lexical minimum
Она каждый день пишет несколько страниц своего романа. She writes a few pages of her novel every day.
Мальчик ещё плохо пишет, но старается. The boy still writes poorly, but he is trying.
Я часто пишу бабушке длинные письма. I often write my grandmother long letters.
Он пишет мне каждую неделю из армии. He writes to me every week from the army.
Этот художник пишет портреты маслом. This artist paints portraits in oil.
Она пишет картину уже целый месяц. She has been painting the picture for a whole month.
What does писать mean in Russian?
to write, compose (text)
to write to someone, correspond
Aspect pair
This verb is imperfective: ongoing or repeated action. Its perfective partner, for a completed one-time result, is
Conjugation of писать
Stress marks show the stressed vowel; it moves between forms more often than learners expect.
| present | singular | plural |
|---|---|---|
| я / мы | пишу | пишем |
| ты / вы | пишешь | пишете |
| он / они | пишет | пишут |
| past | |
|---|---|
| masc | писал |
| fem | писала |
| neut | писало |
| plural | писали |
| imperative | |
|---|---|
| ты | пиши |
| вы | пишите |