russian word
take, pick up, grab in Russian: взять
verbperfectivelevel A1#175 by frequency
every form stress-marked · levels from the official TORFL lexical minimum
Он взял со стола книгу и начал читать. He took the book from the table and started reading.
Возьми зонт, на улице идёт дождь. Take an umbrella, it is raining outside.
Давай возьмём такси, мы опаздываем. Let's take a taxi, we are late.
Вечером я хочу взять такси до дома. In the evening I want to take a taxi home.
What does взять mean in Russian?
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take, pick up, grab (physically)
Aspect pair
This verb is perfective: a completed one-time result. Its imperfective partner, for ongoing or repeated action, is
Conjugation of взять
Stress marks show the stressed vowel; it moves between forms more often than learners expect.
| future | singular | plural |
|---|---|---|
| я / мы | возьму | возьмём |
| ты / вы | возьмёшь | возьмёте |
| он / они | возьмёт | возьмут |
| past | |
|---|---|
| masc | взял |
| fem | взяла |
| neut | взяло / взяло |
| plural | взяли |
| imperative | |
|---|---|
| ты | возьми |
| вы | возьмите |
Participles and gerunds
past activeвзявший
past passiveвзятый
gerund (perfective)взяв
gerund (perfective)взявши