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RUSSIAN VERB

одеваться

to get dressed

  • #216 most used
  • Reflexive verb

Conjugation

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Present

Настоящее время · now and habits: imperfective verbs only

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

Past

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

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

Future

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

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

Conditional

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

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

Imperative

Повелительное наклонение · requests and orders: ты, вы

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

How to use одеваться

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

  1. Present

    Зимой в Москве я одеваюсь как капуста, слоями.

    In winter in Moscow I dress like a cabbage, in layers.

  2. Past

    Она всегда одевалась просто, но со вкусом.

    She always dressed simply but with taste.

  3. Future

    Я буду одеваться, а ты вызывай такси.

    I'll get dressed, and you order the taxi.

  4. Conditional

    Я бы одевалась теплее, у тебя же кашель.

    I'd dress warmer, you've got a cough after all.

  5. Imperative

    Одевайся, папа уже ждёт нас внизу.

    Get dressed, Dad's already waiting for us downstairs.

Good to know

  • Одеваться is to dress yourself; одевать кого-то is to dress someone else; надевать is to put a thing on. Одеться is once.

Verbs like this one

The same pattern, on other verbs: reflexive verb.