Present
Настоящее время · now and habits: imperfective verbs only
- it is enough
RUSSIAN VERB
хватать
to be enough; with not, to be short of
- #106 most used
- Imperfective verb
Conjugation
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Past
Прошедшее время · by gender and number: он говорил, она говорила
- it was enough
Future
Будущее время · “буду” and the infinitive for an imperfective verb; a perfective verb conjugates by itself
- it will be enough
Conditional
Условное наклонение · “would”: the past and “бы”
- it would be enough
How to use хватать
One sentence for each tense, the way people say it.
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Present
Мне не хватает двухсот рублей на билет.
I'm two hundred roubles short for the ticket.
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Past
На даче всегда не хватало стульев.
At the dacha there were never enough chairs.
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Future
Одной зарплаты нам будет хватать с трудом.
One salary will barely be enough for us.
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Conditional
Нам хватало бы и одной комнаты, честно.
One room would be enough for us, honestly.
Good to know
- What there is enough of goes in the genitive and the person in the dative: мне не хватает времени. Хватить is once: денег хватило.
Where you hear хватать
The lessons that teach a form of it, and how they say it.
Russian · Advanced Level 1
- Не хватает двадцати пяти стульев. We are twenty-five chairs short.
- Вчера не хватало времени. Yesterday there wasn't enough time.
- Блинов хватит на всех. There will be enough pancakes for everyone.
Verbs like this one
The same pattern, on other verbs: imperfective verb.