Free Russian Verb Conjugation Quiz
Practice Russian verb conjugation online, one form at a time. Pick the tenses and the verbs, type each form and press Enter, and the quiz marks it right or wrong at once, then shows the form with its stress mark. Keep going as long as you like, then retry only the forms you missed. No Russian keyboard needed. It's free, needs no signup and works on a phone.
Untick a box to leave those verbs out. A verb is in the quiz when it matches a ticked box in each column. A column with nothing ticked keeps all its verbs.
How the Russian conjugation quiz works
You set it up in two steps. First tick the tenses you want: the present, past and future, the conditional or the imperative. Then choose the verbs. With nothing ticked you get all 600 verbs from the worksheets. Tick boxes to narrow them to imperfective or perfective verbs, the first conjugation (читать, читаешь), the second conjugation (говорить, говоришь), the irregular verbs, the verbs of motion, or the reflexive verbs that end in -ся. Every box has an example under it, so you can pick by what the forms look like. The quiz shuffles every question into a new order each time and asks for one form at a time, such as “она · написать · past”. Type the form and press Enter. It's marked right or wrong at once, and the correct form is shown with its stress mark. A running count of right and wrong answers stays on screen. Press Stop when you've had enough to see your score and a list of the forms you missed, and “Practice my mistakes” quizzes you on those and nothing else.
Typing Russian without a Russian keyboard
Under the answer box is an on-screen Cyrillic keyboard, laid out like a Russian one, so you can click or tap the letters on a laptop or a phone. With a Russian keyboard layout installed, just type. Capital letters don't matter, and neither does the subject pronoun: я читаю and читаю both count. Stress marks are never typed, since normal Russian doesn't write them, and е for ё is fine, as in most printed Russian. But the letters themselves count: и for й, or ш for щ, is marked wrong.
Aspect, the past tense and the future
Every question shows the verb's meaning and its aspect, impf. or pf. The aspect decides which forms a verb has. An imperfective verb such as читать has a present (я читаю) and a future with буду (я буду читать). A perfective verb such as прочитать has no present at all, and its future is one word that looks like a present: я прочитаю, I will read it. So a perfective verb never comes up in the present. The past changes for gender and number, not person, so the quiz asks for it by он, она, оно or они: он прочитал, она прочитала. The conditional adds бы to the past form: она прочитала бы.
How accurate are the forms?
The forms come from Wiktionary, and we checked the present or future, the past and the imperative of all 600 verbs against an independent source, the OpenRussian dictionary, stress marks included. Of 7,143 forms compared, 7,045 agreed. The 98 that differed came from 21 verbs, and we checked each one by hand. Most of the time the other source had a typo, a missing or wrong stress mark, or a different verb spelled the same way. The rest are past forms where two stresses are both correct, and since the quiz never marks stress, either one you have learned is fine. Verbs with no imperative anyone uses, such as мочь and хотеть, are never asked for one.
A quiz for you, a worksheet for the class
The quiz is made for one person at a keyboard or a phone, checking answers as they go. If you have a test coming up, tick only the tenses it covers and finish each run with “Practice my mistakes”. For a class, the same verbs and tenses print as Russian verb conjugation worksheets: fill-in boxes, a printed quick quiz and a verb chart, with answer keys on separate pages. To look up one verb, every form of all 600 is in the Russian verb conjugation tables. And if you learn another language too, the Spanish and German verb conjugation quizzes work the same way.
Frequently asked questions
Is this Russian conjugation quiz free?
Yes. There is no account, no email address and no limit on how long you practice. It works in the browser on a computer or a phone.
Do I need a Russian keyboard?
No. The quiz has an on-screen Cyrillic keyboard laid out like a Russian one, so you can click or tap the letters. If you have a Russian keyboard layout installed, type with it as usual.
Which tenses can I practice?
The present, the past and the future, plus the conditional (он читал бы) and the imperative (читай, читайте). The past and the conditional are asked by gender: он, она, оно or они.
Which verbs are in the quiz?
All 600 verbs from the worksheets, unless you tick boxes to narrow them: imperfective or perfective verbs, the first or second conjugation, the irregular verbs, the verbs of motion, or the reflexive verbs ending in -ся. Ticks in one group add up, and groups narrow each other, so Perfective and Verbs of motion together give the perfective verbs of motion.
Do I have to type stress marks or ё?
No. Stress marks are never typed in normal Russian, so the quiz ignores them, and you may type е for ё, as most printed Russian does. The correct form is always shown with its stress mark, so you learn the stress as you go.
Do I have to type я, ты and the other pronouns?
No. Я читаю and читаю are both marked right. Where a form has two correct versions, such as поезжай and езжай, either one counts.
Why does a perfective verb never come up in the present?
Because it has no present tense. A perfective verb such as прочитать describes one finished action, so its present-looking forms mean the future: я прочитаю, I will read it. The quiz only asks for forms a verb has.
Can I practice only the forms I got wrong?
Yes. Press Stop to see your score and a list of the forms you missed, then press "Practice my mistakes" to go through just those again.
Licenses and credits
Conjugation tables come from English Wiktionary through kaikki.org (CC BY-SA 4.0). The verb ranking comes from Hermit Dave's FrequencyWords list, built from OpenSubtitles 2018 (CC BY-SA 4.0).