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RUSSIAN VERB

пожениться

to get married (of a couple, once)

  • Reflexive verb

Conjugation

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Past

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

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

Future

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

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

Conditional

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

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

Imperative

Повелительное наклонение · requests and orders: ты, вы

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

How to use пожениться

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

  1. Past

    Мои родители поженились тридцать лет назад.

    My parents got married thirty years ago.

  2. Future

    Мы поженимся весной, когда станет тепло.

    We'll get married in spring, when it gets warm.

  3. Conditional

    Они бы поженились раньше, но не было денег.

    They'd have married earlier, but there was no money.

  4. Imperative

    Поженитесь уже, вы десять лет вместе!

    Get married already, you've been together ten years!

Good to know

  • Пожениться is for the couple: они поженились. A man женится на ком-то, a woman выходит замуж за кого-то.

Where you hear пожениться

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

Russian · Intermediate Level 1

  • Поженимся летом. Let's marry in the summer.
  • Они поженились через год. They married a year later.
  • Мы поженимся в феврале. We'll get married in February.
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On This Very Train

Intermediate Level 1 · А когда вы поженились?

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Verbs like this one

The same pattern, on other verbs: reflexive verb.