ёрзать

Russian

From Proto-Indo-European *h₁erǵʰ- (“mount (sexually), cover, copulate”). Cognate to Lithuanian er̃žilas, ar̃žilas (“stallion”), aržùs (“hot-tempered, lustful”), Old Norse argr (“effeminate”), German arg (“bad”), English eerie.

ёрзать • (jórzatʹ) impf (perfective заёрзать or поёрзать or ёрзнуть)

to fidget, to squirm, to move restlessly (to twist in discomfort, especially from shame or embarrassment)
Synonym: ело́зить (jelózitʹ)

Conjugation of ёрзать (class 1a imperfective intransitive)

Note: For declension of participles, see their entries. Adverbial participles are indeclinable.
imperfective aspect
infinitive	ёрзать jórzatʹ
participles	present tense	past tense
active	ёрзающий jórzajuščij	ёрзавший jórzavšij
passive	—	—
adverbial	ёрзая jórzaja	ёрзав jórzav, ёрзавши jórzavši
	present tense	future tense
1st singular (я)	ёрзаю jórzaju	бу́ду ёрзать búdu jórzatʹ
2nd singular (ты)	ёрзаешь jórzaješʹ	бу́дешь ёрзать búdešʹ jórzatʹ
3rd singular (он/она́/оно́)	ёрзает jórzajet	бу́дет ёрзать búdet jórzatʹ
1st plural (мы)	ёрзаем jórzajem	бу́дем ёрзать búdem jórzatʹ
2nd plural (вы)	ёрзаете jórzajete	бу́дете ёрзать búdete jórzatʹ
3rd plural (они́)	ёрзают jórzajut	бу́дут ёрзать búdut jórzatʹ
imperative	singular	plural
	ёрзай jórzaj	ёрзайте jórzajte
past tense	singular	plural (мы/вы/они́)
masculine (я/ты/он)	ёрзал jórzal	ёрзали jórzali
feminine (я/ты/она́)	ёрзала jórzala
neuter (оно́)	ёрзало jórzalo

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