russian word
to grow in Russian: расти
verbimperfectivelevel A2#952 by frequency
every form stress-marked · levels from the official TORFL lexical minimum
Мой сын растёт прямо на глазах. My son is growing right before your eyes.
В нашем саду растёт старое дерево. An old tree grows in our garden.
Цены на продукты растут каждый месяц. Food prices rise every month.
С каждым днём моя тревога только растёт. My anxiety only grows with each passing day.
What does расти mean in Russian?
01
to grow (of a living thing, in size)
Aspect pair
This verb is imperfective: ongoing or repeated action. Its perfective partner, for a completed one-time result, is
вырастиto grow up; to become an adultperfective
Conjugation of расти
Stress marks show the stressed vowel; it moves between forms more often than learners expect.
| present | singular | plural |
|---|---|---|
| я / мы | расту | растём |
| ты / вы | растёшь | растёте |
| он / они | растёт | растут |
| past | |
|---|---|
| masc | рос |
| fem | росла |
| neut | росло |
| plural | росли |
| imperative | |
|---|---|
| ты | расти |
| вы | растите |
Participles and gerunds
present activeрастущий
past activeросший
gerund (imperfective)растя
gerund (perfective)росши