Russian reference

портить

to spoil, to ruin, to damage (imperfective)

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Includes aspect specific future forms, requests and conditional constructions. Stress marks are retained. Participles and verbal adverbs appear separately; a missing form is not supplied by this reference.

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Indicative

Present

портить: Present
Person, form or usageForm and meaning
яI spoil
тыyou spoil
он / она / оноhe/she/it spoils
мыwe spoil
выyou (plural) spoil
ониthey spoil

Past

портить: Past
Person, form or usageForm and meaning
яI spoiled
тыyou spoiled
он / она / оноhe/she/it spoiled
мыwe spoiled
выyou (plural) spoiled
ониthey spoiled

Future

портить: Future
Person, form or usageForm and meaning
яI will spoil
тыyou will spoil
он / она / оноhe/she/it will spoil
мыwe will spoil
выyou (plural) will spoil
ониthey will spoil

Imperfective future

портить: Imperfective future
Person, form or usageForm and meaning
яI will spoil
тыyou will spoil
он / она / оноhe/she/it will spoil
мыwe will spoil
выyou (plural) will spoil
ониthey will spoil

Requests and wishes

Imperative

портить: Imperative
Person, form or usageForm and meaning
тыspoil!
выspoil! (plural)

Let us

портить: Let us
Person, form or usageForm and meaning
мыlet us spoil, to ruin, to damage (imperfective)

Conditional

портить: Conditional
Person, form or usageForm and meaning
яI would spoil
тыyou would spoil
он / она / оноhe/she/it would spoil
мыwe would spoil
выyou (plural) would spoil
ониthey would spoil

So that / want someone to

портить: So that / want someone to
Person, form or usageForm and meaning
яso that I spoil
тыso that you spoil
он / она / оноso that he/she/it spoil
мыso that we spoil
выso that you (plural) spoil
ониso that they spoil

If … would

портить: If … would
Person, form or usageForm and meaning
яif I spoil
тыif you spoil
он / она / оноif he/she/it spoil
мыif we spoil
выif you (plural) spoil
ониif they spoil

Additional forms

Infinitive

портить: Infinitive
Person, form or usageForm and meaning
Formto spoil, to ruin, to damage (imperfective)

Present active participle

портить: Present active participle
Person, form or usageForm and meaning
Formone who is performing the action: to spoil, to ruin, to damage (imperfective)

Past active participle

портить: Past active participle
Person, form or usageForm and meaning
Formone who was performing the action: to spoil, to ruin, to damage (imperfective)

Simultaneous verbal adverb

портить: Simultaneous verbal adverb
Person, form or usageForm and meaning
Formwhile performing the action: to spoil, to ruin, to damage (imperfective)

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