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RUSSIAN VERB

разводить

to draw apart, to raise (a bridge)

  • Imperfective verb

Conjugation

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Present

Настоящее время · now and habits: imperfective verbs only

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

Past

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

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

Future

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

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

Conditional

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

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

Imperative

Повелительное наклонение · requests and orders: ты, вы

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

How to use разводить

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

  1. Present

    Летом мосты разводят каждую ночь.

    In summer the bridges are raised every night.

  2. Past

    Мы смотрели, как разводили Дворцовый мост.

    We watched them raise the Palace Bridge.

  3. Future

    Сегодня мосты будут разводить позже обычного.

    Tonight the bridges will be raised later than usual.

  4. Conditional

    Я бы разводил костёр подальше от палатки.

    I'd make the fire further from the tent.

  5. Imperative

    Не разводи руками, лучше помоги мне.

    Don't just shrug, better help me.

Good to know

  • In Petersburg мосты разводят at night: the bridges are raised. Разводить костёр is to make a fire, разводить руками to throw up one's hands.

Where you hear разводить

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

Russian · Intermediate Level 1

  • Мосты разводят в час. They raise the bridges at one.
  • Мост разводили, и мы смотрели. They were raising the bridge, and we watched.
  • Мост будут разводить в час ночи. They'll raise the bridge at one in the morning.

Verbs like this one

The same pattern, on other verbs: imperfective verb.