In this Grammar section we'll talk about Russian verbs. The verb is a part of speech that denotes an action or a process stage (physical movements in space, physical and mental states, alternations etc). It uses the categories of mood, time and person: приехали, напишет, нарисовал бы, приходите! (have arrived, will write, would have painted, come!). Every verb has all or some of these categories.Verbs also reflect grammatical gender and number but these are not verb-specific categories.
Past Tense verbs are formed :
Suffix -л could be omitted in some forms of masculine gender (zero suffix):
The Person is a grammatical category of the Verb indicating the doer of the action. It only exists in the future and present tenses of the indicative mood.
Verbs in the Indicative mood have 3 tenses. The Tense of the Verb is a grammatical
category that shows relation of the action expessed by a verb to the moment of speech.
The mood is one of a set of distinctive verb forms that are used to express modality. There are 3 moods in Russian: the Indicative, Subjunctive and Imperative.
The mood is one of a set of distinctive verb forms that are used to express modality. There are 3 moods in Russian: the Indicative, Subjunctive and Imperative.
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