Funny verbs..

[nanki--poo.livejournal.com]

Hey guys, I've been doing some intense learning the last few days, about tenses, perfectives, imperfect, etc, etc. I'm so glad I took latin class in high school, makes all this so much easier. Anyway, could someone explain the verbs like:

Найти, Дойти, etc.

are they just irregular? Can they be turned into past tense? I tried doing that through a russian translator online (я найл) or similar, but in the end I used similar imperfect verbs, for simplicity's sake. Also are there any others?

In fact, while I'm at it, I've been going through the dictionary linking up imperfect verbs with their perfective versions (or at least what the dictionary says are their perfective versions), are these verbs the same, simply in different form, or are they separate verbs with similar meanings?

for example:
Играть, играю -> Сыграть, сыграю
or Говорить, говорю -> Сказать, скажу, скажешь
some of them even just have a prefix added: Слушать, слушаю -> Послушать, послушаю

and also also while I'm at it (sorry for indulging), in past tenses (eg он Слушал) can you drop the он? I wrote something out in russian today and it just looked a little awkward with so many of them.

спасибо!

Comments

[ekeme-ndiba.livejournal.com]

Well, it's a very subtle issue of stylistics.