Russian Prefixes for Extreme Verbs

Russian attaches the раз-, рас-, and за- prefixes to verbs to indicate that actions were completed or will be completed to an extreme degree.

Some examples:

• заговорить: from to talk, to talk nonsense or to talk for so long you forget the time
• заебать: from to fuck, to brainwash, to annoy, or to fuck someone to exhaustion or death
• замучить: from to torment, to torture (there is also помучивать, to torture continuously or repeatedly)
• зарезать: from to stab, to stab to death
• засидеться: from to sit, to sit for an extremely long time
• зачитать: from to read, to fail to return a book or to read it until it becomes worn out
• раcцеловать: from to kiss, to smother with kisses
• разбить: from to beat, to break
• разработать: from to work, to elaborate or engineer