russian word
to be able to, to manage to in Russian: смочь
verbperfectivelevel A1#413 by frequency
every form stress-marked · levels from the official TORFL lexical minimum
Завтра я наконец смогу тебе всё объяснить. Tomorrow I will finally be able to explain everything to you.
Она так устала, что не смогла дойти до дома. She was so tired that she could not make it home.
Aspect pair
This verb is perfective: a completed one-time result. Its imperfective partner, for ongoing or repeated action, is
Conjugation of смочь
Stress marks show the stressed vowel; it moves between forms more often than learners expect.
| future | singular | plural |
|---|---|---|
| я / мы | смогу | сможем |
| ты / вы | сможешь | сможете |
| он / они | сможет | смогут |
| past | |
|---|---|
| masc | смог |
| fem | смогла |
| neut | смогло |
| plural | смогли |
| imperative | |
|---|---|
| ты | смоги |
| вы | смогите |
Participles and gerunds
past activeсмогший