замести́
- 1.
to cover over (with snow), to sweep over, to bury (in snow)
Доро́гу замело́ сне́гом.
The road was covered over with snow.
Usually impersonal: дорогу замело снегом.
- 2.
to sweep (up), to sweep (into)
Замети́ сор в у́гол.
Sweep the rubbish into the corner.
- 3.
to cover up (traces), to obliterate, to blur
Престу́пник замёл следы́.
The criminal covered up his tracks.
Chiefly in замести следы 'cover one's tracks'.
- 4.
to nab, to bust, to collar, to arrest
Его замели́ на грани́це.
They nabbed him at the border.
Slang.
- 5.
(rare) to begin to drift (of snow), to start blowing
К ве́черу замело́.
Towards evening the snow began to drift.
Impersonal, of a snowstorm starting.
Examples
Престу́пник смог почти полностью замести́ все следы́.
The perpetrator could almost completely remove all traces.
Conjugation
| Present | Future | |
|---|---|---|
| я | - | заме́ту |
| ты | - | заметёшь |
| он/она́/оно́ | - | заметёт |
| мы | - | заметём |
| вы | - | заметёте |
| они́ | - | замету́т |
Note: Stress change.
| Imperative | |
|---|---|
| ты | замети́ |
| вы | замети́те |
| Past | |
|---|---|
| masculine | замёл |
| feminine | заме́ла |
| neuter | замело́ |
| plural | замели́ |
Participles
| Active present | - | |
|---|---|---|
| Active past | replacing, substituting, who replaced | |
| Passive present | - | |
| Passive past | replaced, substituted, displaced | |
| Gerund present | - | |
| Gerund past | замести́в заместивши | while doing (past) |
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