ABSTRACT
In Russian, imperfective and perfective verbs form their future tenses in two different ways. Imperfective verbs have the compound form of the future tense and perfective verbs have the simple form. Imperfective verbs in the future tense describe an action in progress/repeated action or an intention of doing something in the future. Perfective verbs in the future tense describe a complete single action that will occur. Russian and English tenses do not fully correspond. Therefore, translation to/from English depends on understanding the context and meaning of the Russian verbal aspects. Russian imperfective verbs have a compound form of the future tense. Only an imperfective infinitive can be used to form the compound future tense. Russian perfective verbs have a future tense called the ‘simple ’ future tense because it contains only one verb. Imperfective verbs in the present tense and perfective verbs in the simple future tense follow exactly the same rules and patterns.
