поощрить

Russian

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic поощрити (pooštriti), featuring regressive palatalization across "р" (стр > щр). Another example of palatalization across a liquid is found in the conjugation of слать (slatʹ). Doublet of поостри́ть (poostrítʹ, “to spend some time sharpening, to crack some jokes”), which does not feature such palatalization. By surface analysis, по- (po-) +‎ о́стрый (óstryj) +‎ -ить (-itʹ).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [pɐɐɕːˈrʲitʲ]

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Verb

поощри́ть • (pooščrítʹ) pf (imperfective поощря́ть)

1. to encourage, to incentivise, to abet (to support, uphold, or aid)

Conjugation

Conjugation of поощри́ть (class 4b perfective transitive)

Note: For declension of participles, see their entries. Adverbial participles are indeclinable.

perfective aspect
infinitive	поощри́ть pooščrítʹ
participles	present tense	past tense
active	—	поощри́вший pooščrívšij
passive	—	поощрённый pooščrjónnyj
adverbial	—	поощри́в pooščrív, поощри́вши pooščrívši
	present tense	future tense
1st singular (я)	—	поощрю́ pooščrjú
2nd singular (ты)	—	поощри́шь pooščríšʹ
3rd singular (он/она́/оно́)	—	поощри́т pooščrít
1st plural (мы)	—	поощри́м pooščrím
2nd plural (вы)	—	поощри́те pooščríte
3rd plural (они́)	—	поощря́т pooščrját
imperative	singular	plural
	поощри́ pooščrí	поощри́те pooščríte
past tense	singular	plural (мы/вы/они́)
masculine (я/ты/он)	поощри́л pooščríl	поощри́ли pooščríli
feminine (я/ты/она́)	поощри́ла pooščríla
neuter (оно́)	поощри́ло pooščrílo

Derived terms

• поощре́ние (pooščrénije)

References

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “поощрять”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress