Thread: To irritate

раздражАть
раздражИть~per.
раздражИтельный - irritable.

Громкая музыка раздражила весь район
The loud music has irritated the whole neiborhood.

Originally Posted by Dogboy182

ПодражАть
ПодражИть~per
ПодражЕние - irritation
раздражИтельный - Irritable.

Громкая музыка подражила весь район
The loud music has irritated the whole neiborhood.

Подражать = imitate.
Раздражать = irritate.

Neither of this verbs has a perfective form.

@Translation.ru

WHOOPS, i obviously wrote the first 2 words wrong,why the hell did i type подражать ?? i have no idea where that came from... by the time i re-read my post, you already replied, i didn't have time to fix it... OH WELL. (feels really stupid).

And... my dictionary says that раздражать has a perfective, so.. does it?

Originally Posted by Dogboy182

@Translation.ru

WHOOPS, i obviously wrote the first 2 words wrong, sorry. But by the time i read my post, you already replied, i didn't have time to correct it... OH WELL.

And... my dictionary says that it has a perfective... so.. does it?

Well, it does, technically, but I never heard anyone say "раздражИть". Come to think of it, I have run into this form in medical or scientific texts ("раздражить кончик нерва" etc). But not in everyday speech/writing.

People normally say "вЫзвать разждражение' or use a synonym when they want to use a perfective form.