New Russian Word for September 11th, 2009Word for Today: to rest / to have a good time - отдыхать
отдыхать - to rest / to have a good time / to party / to take a break (basically anything that is not related to work)
Like all verbs отдыхать changes by person in the present tense
Я отдыхаю
Вы отдыхаете
Ты отдыхаешь
Мы отдыхаем
Он/она/оно отдыхает
Они отдыхают
Past tense forms change by gender:
отдыхал, отдыхала, отдыхали
Future tense forms:
буду отдыхать (compound), отдохну (simple formed with perfective form)
Imperative forms:
Отдыхай! Отдыхайте! / Не отдыхай! Не отдыхайте!
(Relax! Take a break !/Don't relax! Don't take a break !
In slang отдыхай could mean Get lost!
or
Отдохни! Отдохните! / -
(Take a break!Relax/ - same thing as отдыхай, but 'не отдохни!' is not used.
Different forms :
| imperfective |
perfective | translation | example |
|
отдыхать
|
отдохнуть (single action) |
to rest, take a break, relax, have a good time |
Я отдыхаю с друзьями. I'm partying with friends. Ну как ты отдохнул? So did you have a good time? |
related words:
Отдых - rest, vacationОтдыхающий - someone who is on vacation
Expressions:
Отдыхать - не работать - Resting is nothing like working (normally used to pick up lazy boys)
Real life examples :
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