NuanceDeckРусский

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

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.

02

to come to a stop, to stall (of a mechanism, engine, or traffic)

colloquial

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.

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.

futuresingularplural
я / мывстанувстанем
ты / вывстанешьвстанете
он / онивстанетвстанут
past
mascвстал
femвстала
neutвстало
pluralвстали
imperative
тывстань
вывстаньте

Participles and gerunds

past activeвставший
gerund (perfective)встав
gerund (perfective)вставши