TO WORK! RUSSIAN VERB VOCABULARY

Verbs work for those who want to make sentences. And look – work, want and make, that’s three verbs already. Now good luck trying to translate that sentence into decent Russian if you don’t know работать, хотеть, or делать. So work – not only on the regular, but also on your verb vocabulary.

Here is a selection of resources and channels you can use to do just that. Limited to the basic verbs, leaving out the special and more complex ones (verbs of motion, verbs on -ся, verbs with prepositions) for the most part.

Lina’s Lessons

Alina Zubko (so Lina) discusses verbs in three pairs (perfective and imperfective), from easy (A!) to intermediate (B1) – the easy ones still interesting for more advanced learners, the more difficult ones also followable for beginners. Always with conjugations, and in example sentences linked to the cases.

The youngest of the three, from earlier his

• 3 Russian Verbs for your Daily Conversations! #2 (2024, 8 m), with открывать – открыть, доказывать – доказать and улучшать – улучшить
• 3 Russian Verbs for your Daily Conversations! #1 (2024, 8 m), with встречать – встретить, мешать – помешать and предлагать – предложить.

3 Russian Verbs for your Daily Conversations! #3
(2024, 9 m)

заниматься – заняться
заказывать – заказать
успевать – успеть

Russian from Russia

For those who don’t need to watch but want to listen, the series Russian Verbs from Russia comes highly recommended. Listenable via Apple Podcasts and Spotify, among others; also on the site of Russian from Russia itself.

Always a (roughly) 15-minute lecture, with two questions at the end for next time. The series seems to have ended (last addition April 2021), but the 77 episodes offer plenty to be working for a while.

Russian Verbs from Russia
(Episode 77, 2021, 18 m)

выполнять – выполнить
исполнять – исполнить

русский с носителем

With Elen Sheff, you’ll find lots of everything, (so) also lots of verbs. At multiple levels, and in videos as only Elen can make them. See, among others.

• Всё о глаголе ЛЮБИТЬ (2024, 31 m)
• Всё о глаголе ДЕЛАТЬ (2024, 22 m)
• № 594 Мотать: замотать, вымотать, примотать, смотаться… (2020, 8 m)
• № 592 Крепить: закрепить, открепить, скрепить… (2020, 5 m)
• № 580 обидеть(ся) / обижать(ся) (2020, 10 m)
• № 577 Крутить: выкрутить, закрутиться, накрутить, подкрутить… (2020, 17 m)
• № 573 Брать: выбрать, забрать, добраться, перебрать, разобрать, собрать, убрать… (2020, 33 m)
• № 428 Ступать (2019, 20 m)
• № 415 Путать(2019, 17 m)
• № 409 Кинуть / кидать (2019, 20 m)
• № 402 Тащить (2019, 10 m)
• № 384 Тянуть (2019, 17 m)
• № 383 Пить (2018, 11 m)
• № 379 Лечь / лежать (2018, 12 m)
• № 378 Лить (2018, 13 m)
• № 314 Держать (2018, 14 m)
• № 286 глаголы беспокойства (2018, 10 m)
• № 276 Резать (2018, 16 m)
• № 249 глаголы спора (2018, 11 m)
• № 174 Получать (2017, 11 m)
• 25 Русских Глаголов Для Ежедневного Общения (2017, 11 m)

Verbs with preposition in the Playlist глаголы с приставками, with more than 280 videos.

Глаголы с антонимами (verbs with antonyms)
(2018, 7 m)

LearnRussian.org

LearnRussian.org’s Глаголы (verbs) series teaches verbs with a clear 5 at a time. Insertions and applications in sentences. Small narratives and the voice of Anastacia (from/see also First and second conjugation).

Amazing Russian

is amazing as ever and has a Playlist Verbs (28 videos). Verbs by theme in including.

• Verbs of “Learning” and “Teaching” (2024, 13 m)
• Expressing Ability: Verb МОЧЬ / СМОЧЬ (2023, 7 m)
• Interpreting “to run out”: КОНЧАТЬСЯ / КОНЧИТЬСЯ (2023, 10 m)
• Verbs of Asking: спрашивать-спросить, просить-попросить, задавать-задать (2020, 14 m)
• Verbs of Sending and Receiving: посылать, получать (2017, 16 m)
• Naming things and people: звать vs. называться (2017, 11 m)

Basic Russian 3: Expressing “I can”: Я могу vs. Я умею
(2023, 9 m)

More on Russian Verbs

Videos

• Common Verbs You Must Know + Examples (Easy Russian Lessons, 2024, 33 m)
• 20 important Russian verbs for beginners and their conjugation in the present tense (Natasha RusNow, 2023, 13 m)
• Common verbs in Russian. Russian vocabulary for beginners (Russian Level 1, 2023, 6 m)
• 50 Verbs You Don’t Want To Miss (Be Fluent in Russian, 2022, 13 m)
• 100 basic Russian verbs every beginner must know (Russian teacher Veronika, 2022, 26 m)
• 100 Verbs Every Russian Beginner Must Know (Russian with Nastya, 2020, 22 m)
• The 10 most common Russian verbs and their conjugations (Boost Your Russian, 2019, 22 m)
• 280 Russian Basic Verbs with Sentence Example (Joytan App, 2019, 121 m)
• 100 Verbs Every Russian Beginner Must Know (RussianPod101, 2019, 15 m), zie ook Top 25 Must-Know Russian Verbs (2015, 8 m)
• Russian Vocabulary – 10 Must Know Verbs (Cafe Russian, 2017, 9 m)
• 100 Most Common Russian verbs (Daria Mikhay, 2017, 17 m), zie ook deel 2 (7 m)
• 100 common Russian verbs reading (Denis Fedorov, 2016, 6 m)

Resources

• Russian verbs (Russian Enthusiast)
• 500 Most Common Russian verbs (Russian Enthusiast)
• Top 500 Russian Verbs (Master Russian)
• Russian Verbs. Russian Vocabulary (Russian Lessons)
• 99 Essential Russian Verbs For Fluent Russian Communication (Olly Richards)
• 25 Most Common Russian Verbs (Mighty Languages)
• The 100 Most Common Russian Verbs (Extra Languages, 2022)
• 100 Must-Know Russian Verbs (RussianPod101, 2020)
• 25 Most Common Russian Verbs You Should Know (Easy Russian)

Learn

• Dictionary (Open Russian)
• 1,395 Russian Verbs +audio +perfective (Anki)
• Most Common Russian Verbs (Quizlet)

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Last updated March 25, 2026