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RUSSIAN VERB

засмеяться

to start laughing

  • #199 most used
  • Reflexive verb

Conjugation

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Past

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

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

Future

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

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

Conditional

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

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

Imperative

Повелительное наклонение · requests and orders: ты, вы

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

How to use засмеяться

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

  1. Past

    Бабушка засмеялась так, что чуть не упала.

    Grandma laughed so hard she nearly fell over.

  2. Future

    Он засмеётся, когда услышит мой акцент.

    He'll laugh when he hears my accent.

  3. Conditional

    Я бы засмеялась, но это было не смешно.

    I'd have laughed, but it wasn't funny.

  4. Imperative

    Засмейся, и станет легче, честное слово.

    Laugh, and it'll get easier, honestly.

Good to know

  • За- in front of a verb starts the action: засмеяться, to burst out laughing; заплакать, to start crying. Смеяться is to laugh.

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The same pattern, on other verbs: reflexive verb.