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RUSSIAN VERB

печь

to bake

  • #229 most used
  • Imperfective verb

Conjugation

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Present

Настоящее время · now and habits: imperfective verbs only

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

Past

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

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

Future

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

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

Conditional

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

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

Imperative

Повелительное наклонение · requests and orders: ты, вы

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

How to use печь

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

  1. Present

    По субботам я пеку пироги с капустой.

    On Saturdays I bake cabbage pies.

  2. Past

    Бабушка пекла хлеб прямо в русской печи.

    Grandma baked bread right in the Russian stove.

  3. Future

    На праздник я буду печь торт с вишней.

    For the holiday I'll bake a cherry cake.

  4. Conditional

    Я бы пёк сам, но духовка сломалась.

    I'd bake it myself, but the oven's broken.

  5. Imperative

    Пеки блины тоньше, так вкуснее.

    Make the pancakes thinner, they taste better that way.

Good to know

  • Печь пироги, печь блины is the baking as you do it; испечь is one batch done. Its table is irregular: пеку, печёшь, пекут, past пёк, пекла.
  • Печь is also the stove itself: русская печь.

Where you hear печь

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

Russian · Fluency Level 3

  • Блины я пеку сама. The pancakes I bake myself.
  • Вчера я пекла пироги. Yesterday I baked pies.
  • Утром я буду печь блины. In the morning I'll be baking pancakes.
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Not a Holiday, a Number

Fluency Level 3 · Ладно. Но блины я пеку сама.

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Verbs like this one

The same pattern, on other verbs: imperfective verb.