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RUSSIAN VERB

закончить

to finish (once)

  • #332 most used
  • Perfective verb

Conjugation

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Past

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

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

Future

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

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

Conditional

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

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

Imperative

Повелительное наклонение · requests and orders: ты, вы

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

How to use закончить

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

  1. Past

    Я закончила отчёт за час до встречи.

    I finished the report an hour before the meeting.

  2. Future

    Я закончу ремонт к концу месяца.

    I'll finish the renovation by the end of the month.

  3. Conditional

    Я бы закончила раньше, но компьютер завис.

    I'd have finished earlier, but the computer froze.

  4. Imperative

    Закончи уроки, потом пойдёшь гулять.

    Finish your homework, then you can go out.

Good to know

  • Закончить is to finish something: закончить работу, закончить университет. Закончиться is for a thing that ends.

Where you hear закончить

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

Russian · Intermediate Level 1

  • Закончи и приходи. Finish and come over.
  • Ты закончил в час. You finished at one.
  • Я закончу в десять. I'll finish at ten.

Verbs like this one

The same pattern, on other verbs: perfective verb.