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RUSSIAN VERB

проезжать

to pass, to drive through or past (on the way)

  • Imperfective verb

Conjugation

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Present

Настоящее время · now and habits: imperfective verbs only

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

Past

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

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

Future

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

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

Conditional

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

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

Imperative

Повелительное наклонение · requests and orders: ты, вы

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

How to use проезжать

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

  1. Present

    Мы как раз проезжаем Волгу, посмотри в окно.

    We're just crossing the Volga, look out of the window.

  2. Past

    Каждое утро я проезжал мимо твоего дома.

    Every morning I drove past your house.

  3. Future

    Мы будем проезжать Казань ночью, не увидим.

    We'll be passing Kazan at night, we won't see it.

  4. Conditional

    Я бы проезжал через центр, но там пробки.

    I'd go through the centre, but there's traffic there.

  5. Imperative

    Проезжайте, не останавливайтесь, здесь нельзя.

    Keep going, don't stop, you can't here.

Good to know

  • Проезжать мимо is to drive past; проезжать город, to pass through it. Проехать is one trip.

Where you hear проезжать

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

Russian · Advanced Level 3

  • Сейчас мы проезжаем границу. Right now we're passing the border.
  • Мы проезжали эту станцию ночью. We passed this station in the night.
  • Мы будем проезжать много рек. We'll be passing many rivers.

Verbs like this one

The same pattern, on other verbs: imperfective verb.