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RUSSIAN VERB

раздевать

to undress (someone)

  • Imperfective verb

Conjugation

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Present

Настоящее время · now and habits: imperfective verbs only

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

Past

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

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

Future

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

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

Conditional

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

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

Imperative

Повелительное наклонение · requests and orders: ты, вы

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

How to use раздевать

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

  1. Present

    Я раздеваю Машу, а она смеётся.

    I'm undressing Masha, and she laughs.

  2. Past

    Врач ждал, пока я раздевала ребёнка.

    The doctor waited while I undressed the child.

  3. Future

    Я буду раздевать, а ты держи полотенце.

    I'll do the undressing, and you hold the towel.

  4. Conditional

    Я бы не раздевала её здесь, холодно.

    I wouldn't undress her here, it's cold.

  5. Imperative

    Раздевай её, вода уже тёплая.

    Undress her, the water's warm now.

Good to know

  • Раздевать is to undress someone else, a child; раздеваться is to take your own clothes off: раздевайтесь! says the doctor. Раздеть is once.

Where you hear раздевать

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

Russian · Advanced Level 3

  • Раздевайте её. Undress her.
  • Я раздевала Машу, а она смеялась. I was undressing Masha, and she laughed.
  • Я буду раздевать, ты держи. I'll do the undressing, you hold her.

Verbs like this one

The same pattern, on other verbs: imperfective verb.