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RUSSIAN VERB

пропасть

to vanish, to go missing (once)

  • Perfective verb

Conjugation

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Past

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

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

Future

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

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

Conditional

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

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

Imperative

Повелительное наклонение · requests and orders: ты, вы

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

How to use пропасть

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

  1. Past

    Куда-то пропал мой телефон, не видела?

    My phone's vanished somewhere, have you seen it?

  2. Future

    Без карты ты пропадёшь в этом городе.

    Without a map you'll be lost in this city.

  3. Conditional

    Я бы пропал без твоей помощи.

    I'd be lost without your help.

  4. Imperative

    Не пропади снова, звони мне.

    Don't vanish again, call me.

Good to know

  • Пропасть is to disappear: ключи пропали; a person who пропал hasn't been in touch. Мы пропали is we're done for. Пропадать is the imperfective. Its table: пропаду, пропадёшь.

Where you hear пропасть

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

Russian · Fluency Level 1

  • Не пропади, звони. Don't vanish, call.
  • Мой телефон пропал. My phone has vanished.
  • Без тебя мы пропадём. Without you we're lost.

Verbs like this one

The same pattern, on other verbs: perfective verb.