russian word
to kill, to murder, to slay in Russian: убить
verbperfectivelevel B1#811 by frequency
every form stress-marked · levels from the official TORFL lexical minimum
Охотник убил волка в лесу. The hunter killed the wolf in the forest.
В этом романе преступник убил двух человек. In this novel the criminal murdered two people.
Мы убили целый вечер на эту скучную игру. We killed an entire evening on that boring game.
Я убил столько времени на эту бесполезную работу. I wasted so much time on that pointless job.
What does убить mean in Russian?
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to kill, to murder, to slay (a living being)
Aspect pair
This verb is perfective: a completed one-time result. Its imperfective partner, for ongoing or repeated action, is
убиватьto killimperfective
Conjugation of убить
Stress marks show the stressed vowel; it moves between forms more often than learners expect.
| future | singular | plural |
|---|---|---|
| я / мы | убью | убьём |
| ты / вы | убьёшь | убьёте |
| он / они | убьёт | убьют |
| past | |
|---|---|
| masc | убил |
| fem | убила |
| neut | убило |
| plural | убили |
| imperative | |
|---|---|
| ты | убей |
| вы | убейте |
Participles and gerunds
past activeубивший
past passiveубитый
gerund (perfective)убив
gerund (perfective)убивши