Уходить/уйти
The verb pair уходить/уйти is usually translated as “to leave, depart” or in some contexts just “to go.” Notice that there is an й in the perfective infinitive:
| Imperfective | Perfective | |
| Infinitive | уходить | уйти |
| Past | уходил уходила уходило уходили |
ушёл ушла ушло ушли |
| Present | ухожу уходишь уходит уходим уходите уходят |
No such thing as perfective present in Russian. |
| Future |
буду уходить будешь уходить будет уходить будем уходить будете уходить будут уходить |
уйду уйдёшь уйдёт уйдём уйдёте уйдут |
| Imperative | уходи(те) | уди(те) |
Here are a couple of examples:
| Папа, не уходи!. | Daddy, don’t go away! |
| Во сколько ты уйдёшь? | What time will you leave? |
| Она всегда уходит так рано! | She always leaves so early! |
| Нина ушла от Миши в 2003-ем году. | Nina left Misha in 2003. |
In English the verbs leave and depart mean roughly the same thing, but they have a grammatical difference. We don't use the preposition from with leave, but we usually use from with depart. Thus we have:
She departed from the university at 8.
In Russian if you mention the place you are leaving, you must *always* use the ‘from’ word with its noun. For this verb you use the typical ‘from’ equivalents. For example:
| Таня ушла из университета в пять часов. | Tanya left the university at 5. or Tanya departed from the university at 5. |
| Мы обычно уходим с работы в 5. | We usually leave work at 5. or We usually depart from work at 5. |
| Я уйду от бабушки в 5. | I will leave Grandma’s at 5. I will depart from Grandma’s at 5. |
When you depart a place, you are usually heading somewhere specific; that is, you are going *to* a place. For that reason the typical Russian prepositions of motion will work, e.g. в/на + accusative or with к + dative:
| — Где папа? — Он ушёл в лабораторию. |
“Where is dad?” “He has gone to the laboratory”. or |
| — Где мама? — Она уже ушла на работу. |
“Where is Mom?” “She has already gone to work.” or |
| — Где Таня? — Она ушла к Ире. |
“Where is Tanya” “She has gone to Ira’s place.” or |
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>In Russian if you mention the place you are leaving, you must *always* use the ‘from’ word with its noun. For this verb you use the typical ‘from’ equivalents. For example:
But if you use “покинула” instead of “ушла", you never use “from".
Таня ушла из университета
Таня покинула университет
The latter is close to “left forever” though, but not always.
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