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[tangledweave.livejournal.com]

Hi again,

I was wondering what the difference is between познакомиться, познакомьтесь, и познакомимся.

спасибо

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[quasar3c273.livejournal.com]

познакомиться = to become acqaiinted with, to meet (infinitive)

познакомьтесь (с джо блэком) (like in "meet joe black")

познакомимся = we will become acquainted... we will meet

[belacane.livejournal.com]

can't type in russian on this computer... but I can tell you the first word is the infinitive of to meet (perfective form), the second one is like saying "please meet/ get aquainted with... so and so" and the third is the future perfective conjugation of lets get aquainted, which translates as, we will definitely get aquainted.

[tangledweave.livejournal.com]

this is going to sound pretty stupid, but what is the infinitive. I'm not familiar with that word.

[kutsuwamushi.livejournal.com]

The infinitive is the "dictionary" form of the verb. Sometimes the infinitive is used in speech and writing, but usually the verb is conjugated.

[tangledweave.livejournal.com]

what is he infinitive (perfective form). I've never run across that term. Is the second one the telling someone to "get acquainted with" a third person?

[quasar3c273.livejournal.com]

well, an infinitive is a form of a verb which is used in english with "to"


like to run, to watch, to meet, to smoke stuff... etc

[kutsuwamushi.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah --

The three words you listed are all the same verb, but they're conjugated differently.

A quick Google search yielded these results, which you may find helpful:

http://www.du.edu/langlit/russian/verbs.htm (An intro to Russian verbs)

http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/russian/language/verb.html (Another intro to Russian verbs, but more technical and detailed -- you should read the other one first, probably)

http://www.du.edu/langlit/russian/verbx.htm (Some basic verb conjugation exercises)

http://www.auburn.edu/~mitrege/RWT/tutorials/0001verbs.html (Another very basic introduction to Russian verbs)

[quasar3c273.livejournal.com]

http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinitive#Slavic_languages

[belacane.livejournal.com]

oh boy.. perfective form.
this is going to be a long one.

In brief, russian verbs come in pairs of imperfective and perfective.
Imperfective can be used in the:

1) past
2)present
3) future (with the addition of the 'to be' verb)

and is used to convey

1) something you did repeatedly in the past
2)something you're doing right now
3)something you will do repeatedly in the future

Perfective verbs can only be used in the past and future.

--The past of a perfective verb conveys something you have completed once in the past.
--The future perfective verb conveys something you will definitely do once in the future.

there are various rules to work around doing things simultaniously, and one thing inturrupting another.

Then there's perfective/imperfective verbs of motion... but I will not go there.

Are you taking classes in russian? If you are, you will certainly come across the idea of imperfective and perfective pretty soon.

It's complicated, but you'll get it eventually.

[lapalissade.livejournal.com]

its not necassary to say познакомиться, познакомьтесь или познакомимся
you may say just знакомиться, знакомьтесь, знакомимся.
very often we dont use prefix -по