sobirat

Sobirat is the transliterated infinitive of the Russian verb собирать (sobirat'), meaning to collect, gather, assemble, or compile. In Russian and other Slavic languages, the term denotes the act of bringing items or information together, whether for a collection, a project, or a dataset. The word appears in imperfective and perfective forms, reflecting aspect and scope of the action.

Etymology and cognates: Sobirat originates in Proto-Slavic from a root meaning to gather, with the prefix co- reinforcing the sense of bringing together. Related verbs appear across Slavic languages with similar meanings, such as Polish zbierać and Czech sbírat, indicating a shared heritage in the concept of collecting or assembling.

Grammar and usage: In Russian, собирать is imperfective, used for ongoing, repeated, or incomplete actions, while собрать is its perfective form for completed results. Examples: Я собираю марки (I am collecting stamps); Мы собираем данные (We are collecting data). The imperfective future is formed with the verb to be in the future tense plus infinitive: Я буду собирать. The perfective future uses the simple future form: Я соберу, Ты соберёшь, Он соберёт, Мы соберём, Вы соберёте, Они соберут. The past tense has gendered forms: он собирал, она собирала, оно собирало, они собирали. The reflexive form собираться is used to indicate going to do something or gathering oneself, as in Мы собираемся начать (We are going to start).

See also: собирать as a base verb; сбор (a collection or gathering); собираться (to intend or to collect oneself). In broader contexts, sobirat appears in literary and academic writing referring to data collection, artifact gathering, or compiling information.