С вами снова я, Ольга Джерал и Amazing Russian. Здравствуйте! In this video I'm going to introduce you to the grammar concept of the verb conjugation and the present tense. Also you will learn 8 Russian verbs. Познакомьтесь, это инфинитив.
Здравствуйте! Я инфинитив. Я живу в словаре.
The infinitive is a dictionary form of the verb. Инфинитив. Делать, жить, читать, говорить.
Понимать, изучать, знать, писать Most infinitives end in Т, мягкий знак ТЬ The infinitive is usually used after other verbs Usually the first verb is a conjugated verb. Я хочу читать. Хочу is a conjugated verb. Читать is the infinitive. Я люблю читать.
Люблю is a conjugated verb. Читать is the infinitive. How do you say you read? I will not tell you anything.
The infinitive provides little information about the verb conjugation. It's not your friend. It often misleads you. Present tense.
Good news! Russian has only one form for the present tense. In English you can say She reads, she is reading, she has been reading.
In Russian ОНА ЧИТАЕТ. That's it. Russian verbs agree with the grammatical subject.
It's called conjugation. Я ЧИТАЮ, ТЫ ЧИТАЕШЬ, ОНА ЧИТАЕТ, МЫ ЧИТАЕМ, ОНИ ЧИТАЮТ, ВЫ ЧИТАЕТЕ. This change of the endings is called conjugation. And it's bad news because we need to memorize the endings. Let's talk about the first conjugation.
It's called YE-YOUR conjugation. делать, жить, читать, писать, понимать, знать Изучать. Seven out of eight verbs we are learning today are the verbs of the first conjugation or Е-Ю verbs. Знать. Let's conjugate it.
Я знаю. Ты знаешь. Он-она знает. Мы знаем.
You know They know read I read You read He, she read We read We read We read You read They read They read to understand I understand You understand He, she understand We understand You understand They understand You probably noticed the pattern you delete Т мягкий знак from the infinitive and put a new ending after that. ПонимА and then goes the ending. Also you probably noticed that the verbs of the first conjugation have the Е vowel in ТЫ, ОН, МЫ, ВЫ forms. to study I study You study He, she study We study You study They study to do I ДЕЛАЮ. ТЫ ДЕЛАЕШЬ.
ОН ОНА ДЕЛАЕТ. МЫ ДЕЛАЕМ. ВЫ ДЕЛАЕТЕ. ОНИ ДЕЛАЮТ. ЖИТЬ.
The verb ЖИТЬ is a tricky one. As you can see, you delete Т мягкий знак and you have to put В in all the forms before you put the ending. ЖИВ. Another tricky one. ПИСАТЬ.
According to the rule you learned, you delete Т мягкий знак and put a new ending. this one is very tricky if you conjugate like that it will give you the different meaning it will not be to write it will be to pee if you say я писаю it will be I'm peeing or I pee you don't want to get a lot of laughs from people who know Russian just memorize the verb how its conjugated я пишу notice ш Not С. Я пишу. Ты пишешь.
Он, она пишет. Мы пишем. Вы пишете. Они пишут.
Let's compare. Я понимаю. Я пишу. Я изучаю. Я живу.
In the Я form, sometimes we have Ю ending and sometimes we have У. Они знают. Они пишут. Они читают.
Они живут. In the Они form also you have ЮТ ending and sometimes УТ. Which one to choose?
У or Ю in the Я form and the Они form. The rule is after vowels you write Ю, after consonants У. One more comparison. Он живёт.
Вы живёте. Ты живёшь. Мы живём.
As you can see, in all these endings we have «ю». Он читает. Вы знаете. Ты пишешь.
Мы понимаем. In this group we have Е in the endings. How to choose Е or Ё? The rule is if the ending is stressed write Ё.
ЖИВЁТ. If the ending is unstressed write Е. ЧИТАЕТ. Second conjugation or sometimes we call it E-conjugation.
The only verb of the second conjugation we are learning today is the verb ГОВОРИТЬ. Let's see how it's conjugated. Я говорю. Ты говоришь.
Он, она говорит. We speak, you speak, they speak Now you can see why it's called E-conjugation because we have the E vowel in the Ты, Он, Мы, Вы forms Let's talk about verb stress patterns Russian verbs have three variations in stress when the stress goes on the stem like читать читаю читаешь читает читаем читаете читают the second is when the stress goes on the ending and stress живу живешь живет живем живете живут And the third when the stress shifts. From the ending like пишу it goes back to the stem.
Let's sum it up. The infinitive is not your friend. It's often misleading when it comes to conjugation. Е-Ё conjugation. When you decide У or Ю, you always choose У after consonants and Ю after vowels.
When you decide Е or Ё, take a look at the stress. If the ending is stressed, write Ё. E-conjugation. When you decide У or Ю, in the Я form always assume Ю.
When you need to decide А or Я in the Они form, always assume ЯР in the Они form. Russian has three stress patterns in verbs. So, how to get a verb right?
It's very important to know three forms. The Я form. Живу, пишу, говорю. The Ты form.
Because it gives you the theme vowels, if it's Е conjugation or И conjugation. For example, if you know Ты живешь, you can see it's Е conjugation. So you can figure out Он живет.
Мы живём. Вы живёте. If you know Ты говоришь, you can easily figure out Он говорит. Мы говорим. Вы говорите.
We need the Они form. You can also predict the Они form from the Ты form, but it's a good idea to memorize the Они form as well. So this is how you memorize the verbs.
ЖИТЬ, ЖИВУ, ЖИВЁШЬ, ЖИВУТ. The infinitive. The Я form. The ТЫ form. The ОНИ form.
ГОВОРИТЬ, ГОВОРЮ, ГОВОРИШЬ, ГОВОРЯТ. The infinitive говорить. Говорю the я form. Говоришь the ты form.
Говорят the они form. Молодцы! I hope now you understand the concept of the verb conjugation and your next step will be practice.
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