разбира́ть

fairly common #4793C2

verbimperfective perfective is разобра́ть

1.
to take apart, to take to pieces, to disassemble, to dismantle
Он весь день разбира́л дви́гатель.
He spent the whole day taking the engine apart.
2.
to sort, to sort out, to sort through, to put in order
Я разбира́ю ста́рые бума́ги.
I am sorting through old papers.
3.
to make out, to decipher, to figure out, to understand
Я с трудо́м разбира́ю его́ по́черк.
I can hardly make out his handwriting.
4.
to analyse, to examine, to discuss, to review
На уро́ке мы разбира́ем стихотворе́ние.
In class we analyse a poem.
5.
to snap up, to buy up, to take (all of)
Э́ти биле́ты разбира́ют о́чень бы́стро.
These tickets get snapped up very quickly.
Usually third person plural without a subject: they snap it up.

Examples

На уроке мы разбирали примеры аффиксации в русском языке.
In class, we analyzed examples of affixation in Russian.
В книге автор разбирает мифологему героя-спасителя.
In the book, the author analyzes the mythologeme of the hero-savior.
На лекции мы разбирали полногласие и неполногласие.
In the lecture, we discussed pleophony and incomplete pleophony.
На уроке мы разбирали двучленный многочлен.
In class, we studied a binomial polynomial.
Провода были попутаны, и мы долго их разбирали.
The wires were tangled, and it took us a long time to sort them out.
Сортировщица быстро разбирает письма по адресам.
The female sorter quickly sorts the letters by address.
Он методично разбирал старые документы.
He methodically went through the old documents.
Военрук объяснял нам, как разбирать автомат.
The military instructor explained to us how to disassemble an assault rifle.
Он любит разбирать старые часы по частям.
He likes taking old clocks apart piece by piece.
Я еле разбира́ю его по́черк.
I can barely read his writing.

Imperative
ты	разбира́й
вы	разбира́йте

Active present	разбира́ющий	disassembling, taking apart, dismantling
Active past	разбира́вший	disassembling, taking apart, dismantling
Passive present	разбира́емый	under consideration, being analyzed, being discussed, being examined
Passive past	-
Gerund present	разбира́я	while doing (present)
Gerund past	разбирав разбиравши	while doing (past)

разбира́тьсяto be knowledgeable in; to figure out; to be taken apart; to be examined
verbimperfective
разбира́тельство(trial) proceedings
nounneuter

Verb	Prefix	Meaning
вбира́ть	в-	to absorb; to take in
выбира́ть	вы-	to choose; to elect
добира́ть	до-	to gather additionally
забира́ть	за-	to pick up; to take away; to seize; to veer; to take in (a garment)