Skip to content
fluentbyear

RUSSIAN VERB

красить

to colour, to adorn; to paint

  • Imperfective verb

Conjugation

Tap any form to hear it. The part that changes is in colour.

Present

Настоящее время · now and habits: imperfective verbs only

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

Past

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

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

Future

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

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

Conditional

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

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

Imperative

Повелительное наклонение · requests and orders: ты, вы

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

How to use красить

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

  1. Present

    Я крашу забор уже третий день.

    I've been painting the fence for three days now.

  2. Past

    Мама красила волосы сама, дома.

    Mum used to dye her hair herself, at home.

  3. Future

    Летом мы будем красить дачу в голубой.

    In summer we'll paint the dacha light blue.

  4. Conditional

    Я бы красила кухню в белый, светлее.

    I'd paint the kitchen white, it's lighter.

  5. Imperative

    Крась аккуратно, не капай на пол.

    Paint carefully, don't drip on the floor.

Good to know

  • Красить is to paint or dye: красить стены, красить волосы; покрасить is once. In the proverb, красит is to make a person look good.

Where you hear красить

The lessons that teach a form of it, and how they say it.

Russian · Fluency Level 2

  • Не место красит человека, а человек место. It's not the place that makes the man, but the man the place.
  • Я красил забор всё лето. I was painting the fence all summer.
  • Весной будем красить окна. In spring we'll paint the windows.

Verbs like this one

The same pattern, on other verbs: imperfective verb.