Learn Russian: Мы наелись вкусной пиццы и напились холодного кваса. - We ate our fill of tasty pizza and drank plenty of cold kvass.

Мы наелись вкусной пиццы и напились холодного кваса.

We ate our fill of tasty pizza and drank plenty of cold kvass.

Breakdown of Мы наелись вкусной пиццы и напились холодного кваса.

Questions & Answers about Мы наелись вкусной пиццы и напились холодного кваса.

How do наелись and напились get the meaning of eating and drinking one's fill?

This is the core of the satiation pattern. By wrapping a base verb like есть (to eat) or пить (to drink) in the prefix на- and the reflexive postfix -ся or -сь, you create a new perfective verb meaning to do an action until you are completely full or satisfied.

Why are вкусной пиццы and холодного кваса in the genitive case instead of the accusative?

Usually, you eat or drink a direct object in the accusative case. However, the -сь ending makes these verbs technically reflexive, and true reflexive verbs cannot take a direct object in the accusative. Instead, verbs with the на-...-ся satiation pattern require the genitive case for the thing you consume. Think of it as having your fill "of" something.

Why do these verbs end in -сь instead of the standard reflexive -ся?

The reflexive particle has two forms. You use -ся after consonants, but it shortens to -сь after vowels. Since the past tense plural forms ели and пили both end in the vowel и, the particle becomes -сь to make pronunciation smoother.

Are наелись and напились perfective or imperfective?