Thread: Admit/recognise my mistake

"Признаю свою ошибку" should work for both (unless you want it to be more specific for some reason).

Thank you as I understand the verb I shoud use is: признавать / признать. But why the correct is not the "я признаваю свою ошибку". As a non native for me: "Признаю свою ошибку: meas "I will admit my mistake" and not "I admit my mistake"

Originally Posted by Antonio1986

Thank you as I understand the verb I shoud use is: признавать / признать. But why the correct is not the "я признаваю свою ошибку". As a non native for me: "Признаю свою ошибку: meas "I will admit my mistake" and not "I admit my mistake"

Признаю - I admit (imperfective, present)
Признаю - I will admit (perfective, future)

The difference is in stress.

Thank you. I was not careful I thought that the conjugation was "Я признаваю"

Originally Posted by Antonio1986

Thank you as I understand the verb I shoud use is: признавать / признать. But why the correct is not the "я признаваю свою ошибку". As a non native for me: "Признаю свою ошибку: meas "I will admit my mistake" and not "I admit my mistake"

Antonio,
There is a group of Russian verbs with the suffixes -ава-/-ова in the imperfective infinitive: рисОВАть, следОВАть, существОВАть, признАВАть. However, when you conjugate them in the present tense, you drop this suffixes -ава-/-ова- . See the examples:

Infinitive: признавАть , but conjugated: я признаЮ, ты признаЕШЬ /pronounced as - йош/, etc.

Infinitive: слЕдовать, but conjugated: я слЕдую, ты слЕдуешь, он слЕдует etc.

Infinitive: существовАть, but conjugated: я существУю, ты существУещь, он существУет.

Infinitive: рисовАть, But conjugated: я рисУю, ты рисУешь, он рисУет etc.

I hope you will find it helpful.

It was helpful indeed I totally forgot the verb: давать

... Russian verbs with the suffixes -ава-/-ова in the imperfective infinitive: рисОВАть, следОВАть, существОВАть, признАВАть. However, when you conjugate them in the present tense, you drop this suffixes -ава-/-ова- . See the examples:

Infinitive: признавАть , but conjugated: я признаЮ, ты признаЕШЬ /pronounced as - йош/, etc.

Infinitive: слЕдовать, but conjugated: я слЕдую, ты слЕдуешь, он слЕдует etc.

Infinitive: существовАть, but conjugated: я существУю, ты существУещь, он существУет.

Infinitive: рисовАть, But conjugated: я рисУю, ты рисУешь, он рисУет etc.

I hope you will find it helpful.

A difference in this group _авать/_евать/_овать shows up in the imperative. The авать group (_давать, _ставать, _знавать) has "___авай/___авайте" imperative.

The овать евать group has уй/уйте imperatives. So they have some similar behaviour, and some dissimilar behaviour (besides the ова/у ава/а vowel thing) [and there are two kinds of евать verbs, some like танцевать, and some like подогревать ]