No. 12,281 in Russian
испугать
To scare or frighten.
In a sentence
Не надо было так внезапно подходить — ты испугал его.
You shouldn't have approached so suddenly — you scared him.
Here, 'испугал' is used to express the action of causing fear or alarm in someone, showing its straightforward application to indicate one person scaring another.
Она испугалась грома, который внезапно прогремел.
She got scared of the thunder that suddenly roared.
In this sentence, 'испугалась' is reflexive, describing the subject experiencing fear or alarm themselves, indicating the verb can be used reflexively to represent a state of being scared.
Дети боятся привидений, и мне пришлось их успокаивать, чтобы они не испугались.
Children are afraid of ghosts, and I had to calm them down so they wouldn't get scared.
The phrase 'не испугались' uses the verb in its negative reflexive form to convey the potential of them becoming scared, demonstrating its use in hypothetical contexts.
Hear it in real podcasts
The recording above is a synthetic voice. Hear how people say “испугать” in actual Russian podcasts.
Find “испугать” in podcastsLearn it from shows you like
LangTurbo plays Russian podcasts with a transcript and the English under every line. Tap a word like this one and it tells you what it means right there. For iPhone, iPad and Android.
Learning English?
LangTurbo plays real English podcasts with every line translated into русский, and tells you what any word means in that sentence. For iPhone, iPad and Android.
Russian books and courses on Amazon (an affiliate link: a purchase through it supports this site).