Thread: I Wrote Another Story For Practice

Originally Posted by impulse

Thanks again for your answer.

If I am not mistaken there are two adverbial forms of the verb читать as follows;

1- читая >> present tense
2-читавши>> past tense.

and for the verb прочитать as follows

1-прочитав >> represent the past tense.
2-прочитавши >> represent the past tense.

So here what is the difference between 1st and 2nd adverbial forms of both verbs? 2nd forms are used often?

I think this is a different concept than читать - читая -читав (which does not exist according to the academic grammer)

Or читавши and читав mean the same?

The forms with "-вши" are just more colloquial than the forms with "-в". So, yes, "читав" = "читавши" (both of them are not standard).
And "прочитав" = "прочитавши".
The forms with "-вши" are not used in official documents or in scientific texts etc.