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RUSSIAN VERB

убежать

to run away

  • #408 most used
  • Perfective verb

Conjugation

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Past

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

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

Future

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

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

Conditional

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

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

Imperative

Повелительное наклонение · requests and orders: ты, вы

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

How to use убежать

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

  1. Past

    Собака соседей убежала, помогите искать.

    The neighbours' dog ran away, help us look.

  2. Future

    Я убегу с работы на час раньше.

    I'll slip away from work an hour early.

  3. Conditional

    Я бы убежал от этого разговора, но некуда.

    I'd run away from this conversation, but there's nowhere to go.

  4. Imperative

    Смотри не убеги от нас в толпе.

    Mind you don't run off from us in the crowd.

Good to know

  • Убежать is one escape: собака убежала. Its forms follow бежать: убегу, убежишь, убегут.

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The same pattern, on other verbs: perfective verb.