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RUSSIAN VERB

потерять

to lose (one time)

  • #186 most used
  • Perfective verb

Conjugation

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Past

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

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

Future

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

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

Conditional

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

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

Imperative

Повелительное наклонение · requests and orders: ты, вы

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

How to use потерять

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

  1. Past

    Я потеряла перчатку где-то в метро.

    I lost a glove somewhere in the metro.

  2. Future

    Положи билет в паспорт, иначе потеряешь.

    Put the ticket in your passport, otherwise you'll lose it.

  3. Conditional

    Без тебя я бы потеряла дорогу в этом лесу.

    Without you I'd have lost my way in this forest.

  4. Imperative

    Не потеряй квитанцию, без неё не вернут деньги.

    Don't lose the receipt, without it they won't refund the money.

Good to know

  • Потерять ключи, паспорт, время is to lose them; потеряться is to get lost yourself. Терять is the imperfective.

Where you hear потерять

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

Russian · Intermediate Level 2

  • Не потеряй список! Don't lose the list!
  • Я потерял ключи от студии. I lost the keys to the studio.
  • Вы не потеряете паспорт, Сэм. You won't lose your passport, Sam.

Verbs like this one

The same pattern, on other verbs: perfective verb.