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RUSSIAN VERB

выключать

to turn off

  • #488 most used
  • Imperfective verb

Conjugation

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Present

Настоящее время · now and habits: imperfective verbs only

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

Past

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

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

Future

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

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

Conditional

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

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

Imperative

Повелительное наклонение · requests and orders: ты, вы

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

How to use выключать

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

  1. Present

    Я всегда выключаю телефон на ночь.

    I always turn my phone off at night.

  2. Past

    Раньше мы выключали отопление на лето.

    We used to turn the heating off for the summer.

  3. Future

    Свет будут выключать в полночь, возьми фонарик.

    They'll turn the lights off at midnight, take a torch.

  4. Conditional

    Я бы не выключал холодильник на неделю.

    I wouldn't turn the fridge off for a week.

  5. Imperative

    Выключай компьютер, пора садиться ужинать.

    Turn off the computer, it's time to sit down to dinner.

Good to know

  • Выключать свет, компьютер, воду: to switch off, as a habit or as it goes. Включать is the opposite; выключить is once.

Verbs like this one

The same pattern, on other verbs: imperfective verb.