russian word
to get up, to stand up, to rise to one's feet in Russian: встать
verbperfectivelevel A2#658 by frequency
every form stress-marked · levels from the official TORFL lexical minimum
Когда учитель вошёл, все ученики встали. When the teacher came in, all the pupils stood up.
Завтра мне нужно встать в шесть утра. Tomorrow I have to get up at six in the morning.
Машина встала прямо посреди дороги. The car came to a dead stop right in the middle of the road.
Из-за снега весь поток машин встал на час. Because of the snow the whole flow of traffic stopped for an hour.
What does встать mean in Russian?
01
to get up, to stand up, to rise to one's feet
Aspect pair
This verb is perfective: a completed one-time result. Its imperfective partner, for ongoing or repeated action, is
вставатьto stand up, riseimperfective
Conjugation of встать
Stress marks show the stressed vowel; it moves between forms more often than learners expect.
| future | singular | plural |
|---|---|---|
| я / мы | встану | встанем |
| ты / вы | встанешь | встанете |
| он / они | встанет | встанут |
| past | |
|---|---|
| masc | встал |
| fem | встала |
| neut | встало |
| plural | встали |
| imperative | |
|---|---|
| ты | встань |
| вы | встаньте |
Participles and gerunds
past activeвставший
gerund (perfective)встав
gerund (perfective)вставши