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RUSSIAN VERB

разводиться

to get divorced

  • #456 most used
  • Reflexive verb

Conjugation

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Present

Настоящее время · now and habits: imperfective verbs only

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

Past

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

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

Future

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

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

Conditional

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

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

Imperative

Повелительное наклонение · requests and orders: ты, вы

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

How to use разводиться

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

  1. Present

    Соседи разводятся после двадцати лет брака.

    The neighbours are divorcing after twenty years of marriage.

  2. Past

    Мои родители разводились долго и тяжело.

    My parents' divorce was long and painful.

  3. Future

    Если он не изменится, они будут разводиться.

    If he doesn't change, they'll be getting divorced.

  4. Conditional

    Я бы не разводился из-за одной ссоры.

    I wouldn't get divorced over one quarrel.

  5. Imperative

    Не разводись сгоряча, поговори с ним сначала.

    Don't divorce in the heat of the moment, talk to him first.

Good to know

  • Разводиться с кем-то is to divorce someone: она разводится с мужем. Развестись is once; the noun is развод.

Verbs like this one

The same pattern, on other verbs: reflexive verb.