защёлкать
verbperfectiverare
- 1.
to begin to click, to start clacking, to start snapping (fingers), to start cracking (a whip)
Он защёлкал па́льцами в такт му́зыке.
He started snapping his fingers in time with the music.
Perfective; ingressive — denotes the start of a repeated clicking sound.
- 2.
to begin to warble, to burst into song (of a nightingale)
В са́ду защёлкал соловей.
A nightingale began to warble in the garden.
Used chiefly of nightingales and similar songbirds.
Examples
Фотоаппараты защелкали со всех сторон.
Cameras began clicking all around them.
Conjugation
| Present | Future | |
|---|---|---|
| я | - | защёлкаю |
| ты | - | защёлкаешь |
| он/она́/оно́ | - | защёлкает |
| мы | - | защёлкаем |
| вы | - | защёлкаете |
| они́ | - | защёлкают |
| Imperative | |
|---|---|
| ты | защёлкай |
| вы | защёлкайте |
| Past | |
|---|---|
| masculine | защёлкал |
| feminine | защёлкала |
| neuter | защёлкало |
| plural | защёлкали |
Participles
| Active present | - | |
|---|---|---|
| Active past | clicking, snapping, that has clicked, that has snapped | |
| Passive present | - | |
| Passive past | latched, snapped shut, clicked into place | |
| Gerund present | - | |
| Gerund past | защёлкав защёлкавши | while doing (past) |
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Lucian edited verb basics 6 years ago.
