Thread: Разные вопросы по грамматике (by Antonio1986)

"verbs whose conjugations are annoying and confusing to foreigners" (of which Russian has too many to count)

But even though there are tons of these verbs, it's possible to group them into (I'm guessing) fewer than three-dozen categories, such as:

• "verbs that behave like пасть"
• "verbs that behave like давать "
• "verbs that behave like бить"

...and so forth.

Learning two or three dozen basic conjugational patterns seems like a lot, but obviously it's a lot more efficient than memorizing the individual conjugations for thousands of different verbs!

I'm not sure whether there's some kind of "sticky" post somewhere on MR summarizing all the conjugations by pattern -- does anyone know?

Originally Posted by Throbert McGee

But even though there are tons of these verbs, it's possible to group them into (I'm guessing) fewer than three-dozen categories, such as:

• "verbs that behave like пасть"
• "verbs that behave like давать "
• "verbs that behave like бить"

please also note that пасть can be a noun with the meaning "mouth/jaws/gorge"

..."verbs that behave like бить"...

... вить лить пить шить and prefixed forms ...and verbs that behave like мыть (выть крыть ныть рыть) and prefixed forms. Пасть => красть класть.

More of the 'а' verbs that mutate throughout the present tense: писать искать резать шептать махать.

искать махать have third type of mutation, velar (first two above are dental and labial).

г => ж
к => ч
х => ш
ск => щ

This mutation is rare compared to the dental and labial mutation. Also, the velar mutation is different than the following change, but it is easy to confuse the different types of changes:
ке => че
ге => же