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RUSSIAN VERB

будить

to wake someone

  • #318 most used
  • Imperfective verb

Conjugation

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Present

Настоящее время · now and habits: imperfective verbs only

  1. я I wake someone
  2. ты you wake someone
  3. он, она, оно he/she wakes someone
  4. мы we wake someone
  5. вы you all wake someone
  6. они they wake someone

Past

Прошедшее время · by gender and number: он говорил, она говорила

  1. он he woke someone
  2. она she woke someone
  3. оно it woke someone
  4. они they woke someone

Future

Будущее время · “буду” and the infinitive for an imperfective verb; a perfective verb conjugates by itself

  1. я I will wake someone
  2. ты you will wake someone
  3. он, она, оно he/she will wake someone
  4. мы we will wake someone
  5. вы you all will wake someone
  6. они they will wake someone

Conditional

Условное наклонение · “would”: the past and “бы”

  1. он he would wake someone
  2. она she would wake someone
  3. оно it would wake someone
  4. они they would wake someone

Imperative

Повелительное наклонение · requests and orders: ты, вы

  1. ты wake someone!
  2. вы wake someone! (formal, or all of you)

How to use будить

One sentence for each tense, the way people say it.

  1. Present

    Каждое утро я бужу детей в семь.

    Every morning I wake the children at seven.

  2. Past

    Меня будил шум стройки под окном.

    The noise of the building site under the window kept waking me.

  3. Future

    Я не буду тебя будить, спи.

    I won't wake you, sleep.

  4. Conditional

    Я бы не будил её так рано.

    I wouldn't wake her so early.

  5. Imperative

    Не буди папу, он работал всю ночь.

    Don't wake Dad, he worked all night.

Good to know

  • Будить кого-то is to wake someone; разбудить is once. To wake up yourself is просыпаться.

Verbs like this one

The same pattern, on other verbs: imperfective verb.