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The links below lead to four lists of some common Perfective
verbs and their Imperfective partners.
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The first three lists include by
far the largest number of verbs in the language.
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There is no sure way to take a verb and form its aspect partner the way you take a noun and form, say, its Instrumental case. However, there are ways of looking at a verb (as in group 1), or a pair of verbs, (as in groups 2 and 3) and being able to tell the aspect of the verb.
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- -ыва-/-ива- verbs. All verbs with this suffix are Imperfective
- -ить verbs vs. -ять/-ать verbs. Goven a pair of verbs with these suffixes, the one in -ить will be Perfective.
- Prefixed vs. unprefixed verbs. Given a pair of verbs, one simple and the other prefixed, the Prefixed verb will be Perfective.
(Unprefixed verbs are almost all Imperfective; дђть and купќть are exceptions to this generalization.)
- Verbs whose aspect is impossible to guess
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