We will understand what verb is the literary norm: "climb" or "climb"

Climbers like to climb rocks, book lovers prefer to climb library shelves, and we'll climb into dictionaries to find out how to use the verb correctly: climb or climb.

Origin and tints of meaning

This word comes from the Old Slavonic language. We meet its forms in Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Czech, and Serbo-Croatian. Synonyms of the token "climb" (or "climb") explain its meaning: move, crawl, climb, climb, cling. In the dictionary of Vladimir Dal, there are numerous expressive examples of the use of both these words. You can climb or climb on the roof and in the cellar, through the trees and ruins. The verb is used even when they want to say about penetration somewhere more than once: to climb on basements, to climb on strange gardens. Another shade of meaning: penetrate, climb up into something locked or buttoned: climb into a pocket, into a buffet. Sometimes this verb is used in a figurative sense. For example: Why are you climbing into my business ? True, in these cases the verb is used mainly not in the infinitive, but in a personal form.

To climb or climb: how to write and speak correctly?

According to the modern norms of the Russian language, both words can be considered correct. In the dictionaries of Dahl, Efremova, Ushakov, Reznichenko, there is no difference in how to pronounce and write: climb or climb, these infinitives are equal. Only in the dictionary of Ozhegov their equality is slightly violated: the verb to climb is mentioned as spoken. Due to this nuance, the literary norm, which is permissible for a high syllable, is only one word - "climb." It often happens that trying to find the word "climb" in the dictionary, we see a reference to the verb "climb" and already under it we read the necessary information.

Game of conjugations

The words-twins are also remarkable by the fact that they refer to different conjugations, which means they have different personal endings. Conjugating verbs, you can learn how to spell the word "climb" in the first, second and third person of unity. And pl. Number.

Before we conjugate both lexemes, let us recall that to the group of verbs of conjugation II belong all the words of this part of speech that end in the infinitive to -it. Verbs I conjugations in an indefinite form have any endings, except for. There are exceptions: the words "shave" and "lay", despite the ending, belong to the group of the first conjugation. And the words "drive," "hold," "watch," "see," "breathe," "hear," "hate," "offend," "twist," "depend," "tolerate," regardless of ending, Belong to the group of verbs of the second conjugation. The word "climb" belongs to the second conjugation, since in the infinitive has an ending-it does not apply to exceptions. Therefore, according to the rule for verbs II of conjugation, it is written as follows:

• In the first person - I get on, we climb;
• In the second person - you climb, you climb;
• In the third person - he (she, it) climbs, they climb.

Another thing - the verb to climb. It refers to the first conjugation, since it does not belong to the group of infinitives that ends with -it and is no exception. According to the rule for verbs I of conjugation, the word "climb" has the following personal endings:

• In the first person - I climb, we climb;
• In the second you climb, you climb;
• In the third - he (she, it) climbs, they climb.

Speak correctly

Errors may be due to the fact that a person confuses conjugations. You can not say, for example, it climbs, they climb, you climb, I'm lazy. In the dictionary, edited by Dmitry Ushakov, these forms are marked as colloquial. It is necessary to take into account the rule of the Russian language as the alternation of consonant phonemes in the root of the word. Following him, we can not pronounce and write a derivative of the word "climb" in the 1st person of the singular in this form: I climb. It will be right: I'm getting on.
In the imperative mood, expressing a request or order, the verb to climb will sound like "climb", and the verb "climb" - respectively, "climb".

Which word is leading

And what word do people use more often: climb or climb? According to the results of the study of the main search engines Runet, the primacy - for the word "climb." Users of the network use it about a third more often than the other permissible form of this verb.

The Integrum database, which collects the results of media monitoring, reports that newspapers and magazines, for example, in St. Petersburg, almost 100 times more often print different forms of the verb "climb" on their pages. In the Krasnoyarsk print media both words appear on an equal footing. And Moscow newspapers often use the word "climb."

Derivative words

What about the other parts of speech, derived from verbs climb and climb? There are nouns "climbing", "rock climbing", etc. Communion: climbing. There is a girlish participle "climbing" and "climbing". In colloquial speech, one can sometimes hear an adjective formed from this verb: these mountains are already lasagne-slipped.

What word is appropriate in this or that case

So, we no longer have any doubts as to how to climb or climb correctly in written and oral speech. It only remains to add that the phonetic lexeme "climb", although it is declared colloquial, more, oddly enough, resembles a high syllable, because you can not say, for example, that thieves are climbing their pockets. Here it is more appropriate to use the verb "climb" (from the infinitive to climb).