Quote Originally Posted by Throbert McGee View Post
For example, the story Пингвины ("Penguins") has the sentence они не умеют летать, зато очень хорошо плавают ("they don't know how to fly, but they swim very well") -- so right there you've got a great illustration of how "indeterminate/multidirectional" Verbs Of Motion are used. (I.e., you say "Они хорошо плавают", not "Они хорошо плывут".)
probably "they can't fly, but swim very well" is more literal
I also realized that I don't know a lot about Russian verbs, even that I can speak Russian