Я сорву один тюльпан для мамы.

Сорву is the 1st person singular future form of the perfective verb сорвать.

Russian verbs come in two aspects:

• imperfective: focuses on process, repetition, or an ongoing action
• perfective: focuses on a completed single action

Here, the speaker means I will pick/pluck one tulip as a single completed act, so Russian uses the perfective verb сорвать → я сорву.

Compare:

• Я срываю тюльпаны. = I am picking tulips / I pick tulips
• Я сорву один тюльпан. = I will pick one tulip

The infinitive is сорвать.

The form сорву may look irregular at first, but it is just how this verb conjugates in the future:

• сорвать = to pick/pluck
• я сорву = I will pick/pluck

This kind of stem change is normal in Russian and just has to be learned as part of the verb’s pattern.

That is a very common Russian feature.

For perfective verbs, the so-called present-tense forms actually refer to the future, because a completed action cannot be happening right now as a present process.

So:

• я сорву = I will pick
• not I pick or I am picking

If you want a real present meaning, you need the imperfective partner, for example срывать.

Yes, один literally means one.

In this sentence it emphasizes that the speaker will pick one tulip specifically, not several.

Depending on context, English might say a tulip, but Russian has no articles (a / the), so один is only used when the idea of one single item is important.

Compare:

• Я сорву тюльпан. = I’ll pick a tulip / the tulip
• Я сорву один тюльпан. = I’ll pick one tulip

It is in the accusative.

The noun тюльпан is masculine singular and inanimate, and for masculine inanimate nouns the accusative singular is the same as the nominative singular.

So:

• nominative: тюльпан
• accusative: тюльпан

That is why the form does not visibly change.

Compare with an animate masculine noun:

• кот = cat
• nominative: кот
• accusative: кота

Because the preposition для requires the genitive case.

So:

• мама = nominative
• мамы = genitive singular

That gives:

• для мамы = for mom

This is something you generally have to memorize with prepositions: many Russian prepositions always govern a particular case.

Here для means for, in the sense of intended for or meant for Mom.

So один тюльпан для мамы means one tulip for Mom.

Russian can also often use the dative instead:

• Я сорву маме один тюльпан.

That also means I’ll pick Mom one tulip or I’ll pick one tulip for Mom.

Very roughly:

• для мамы emphasizes for Mom / intended for Mom
• маме can sound a bit more like for Mom / to give Mom

Both are natural depending on context.

Yes, very often.

Russian frequently leaves out subject pronouns when they are clear from the verb form. Since сорву already means I will pick, Я is not always necessary.

So both are possible:

• Я сорву один тюльпан для мамы.
• Сорву один тюльпан для мамы.

Including Я can add clarity, contrast, or emphasis.

No, Russian word order is fairly flexible.

The sentence as written is a neutral, straightforward order:

• Я сорву один тюльпан для мамы.

But other orders are possible, depending on emphasis:

• Для мамы я сорву один тюльпан. = emphasizes for Mom
• Один тюльпан я сорву для мамы. = emphasizes one tulip
• Я для мамы сорву один тюльпан. = also possible, with a slight focus on for Mom

The basic meaning stays the same, but the focus or rhythm changes.

It can mean several related things: to pluck, to pick, to tear off, depending on context.

With a flower like тюльпан, it naturally means to pick/pluck it.

So in this sentence, сорву один тюльпан is understood as I’ll pick one tulip.

The stress is:

• Я сорву́ оди́н тюльпа́н для ма́мы.

A learner may especially want to remember:

• сорву́
• оди́н
• тюльпа́н
• ма́мы

Stress matters in Russian, so it is worth learning words together with their stressed syllables.