How to Determine Conjugation of a Verb

How to determine the conjugation of a verb? This is one of the most problematic issues in the modern school course on the Russian language. Even for students who have "inborn literacy", determining the conjugation of the verbs "want" or "have" is a difficult task. Particularly complicating is the situation where the recognition is given a minimum of time (in control works).

The verb plays a huge role in the functioning of the language. The range of actions that it stands for is truly enormous. It is possible to name at least five semantic groups of action, covered by the semantics of the verb.

1. Work activity: sewing, knitting, digging, hacking, etc .;
2. Speech and mental activity; Decide, talk, imagine, observe, think, etc .;
3. The designation of spatial displacements and positions: sit, lie, stand, fly, go etc.;
4. The designation of various states, including - human states: sleep, ache, hate, love, grieve, etc .;
5. The designation of the states of nature: dusk, dusk, rain, light, etc.

The verb is extremely expressive and able to convey subtle nuances of action. For example, a number of synonyms can be used to designate speech, each of which expresses its own specific meaning: to speak - to express thoughts aloud; Inform - talk about something specific; To express - to communicate their opinion.

The illiterate use of the verb leads to confusion, which provokes a loss of meaning in speech and language. For example, mistakes in personal endings when changing a verb threaten with a misunderstanding of what has been read and heard.

The Russian language would not be itself if its rules were not accompanied by numerous exceptions. The laws of conjugation contain a whole series of such exceptions, without knowledge of which it is impossible to talk about literacy.

How to determine the conjugation of a verb according to the rules without exceptions and with them?

The verb changes in numbers and faces, that is, conjugates. The changes do not apply to the verbs of the imperative and conditional moods.

The Russian verb has two conjugations. If their signs differed only according to the rules without exceptions, the answer to the question - how to determine the conjugation of the verb, would look like this.

The conjugations are distinguished by the vowel in the personal ending. For this, the verb must be used in the third person. Its plural will show the sought-after characteristics:

• First conjugation: -out (-yut)
• Second conjugation: -at (-yat)

For example:

• "Sing," "cherish," "call," "pour," "bloom" - the first conjugation ;.
• "Hang", "sleep", "sit", "lie", "burn" - the second conjugation.

However, this method of recognition is suitable only for those verbs that change the personal ending under stress.

How to determine the conjugation of a verb, if the stress does not fall on a personal ending? Here comes a separate recommendation.

You should use the verb in the infinitive. Then the distinction by suffix comes into force:

• All verbs with the suffix -u (t) ("wet", "walk", "salt", "catch") - the second conjugation.
• The exception ("lay", "shave", "stand up" and "zybits") - the first conjugation.

How to determine conjugation, if during the change of the verb its personal ending remains unstressed, while in the infinitive are observed -e (t) and -a (t)?

In this case, we can say with confidence that this is the first conjugation.

There are eleven exception words from this rule, which, despite the presence of suffixes -e (t) and -a (t), refer to the second conjugation. For the convenience of memorization, these words form a quatrain, which gives the rule a humorous tinge:

Drive, breathe, hold, offend,

Hear, see, hate

And watch, and twirl,

And depend, and endure!

Finally, how to determine the conjugation of verbs "to run away," "want," "honor," representing an independent group in the language?

To do this, you need to know that these verbs are called multidimensional and vary simultaneously in the first and second conjugations.

Want, want, want, want, want, want, want;

Run, run, run, run, run, run, run;

Honor, honor, honor, honor, honor, honor, honor and honor.