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RUSSIAN VERB

пережить

to live through, to survive (once)

  • #428 most used
  • Perfective verb

Conjugation

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Past

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

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

Future

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

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

Conditional

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

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

Imperative

Повелительное наклонение · requests and orders: ты, вы

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

How to use пережить

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

  1. Past

    Бабушка пережила войну и голод.

    Grandma lived through the war and the famine.

  2. Future

    Ничего, переживём и эту зиму.

    Never mind, we'll get through this winter too.

  3. Conditional

    Я бы не пережила такого позора.

    I wouldn't survive such embarrassment.

  4. Imperative

    Переживи эту неделю, потом отпуск.

    Get through this week, then it's holiday.

Good to know

  • Пережить is to come through something hard: пережить зиму, пережить потерю. Переживать is also to worry: не переживай! Its table: переживу, переживёшь.

Where you hear пережить

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

Russian · Fluency Level 1

  • Переживи баню, потом поговорим. Survive the banya, then we'll talk.
  • Я пережил русскую зиму. I survived a Russian winter.
  • Ничего, переживёшь. Never mind, you'll live.

Russian · Fluency Level 3

  • Переживи баню, потом поговорим. Survive the banya, then we'll talk.
  • Я пережил русскую зиму. I survived a Russian winter.
  • Ничего, переживёшь. Never mind, you'll live.

Verbs like this one

The same pattern, on other verbs: perfective verb.