Thread: изучать vs. учиться

Всем привет!

I just learned (heh) the verb изучать, but formerly I was only aware of учиться — I realize that учиться is passive and means more litterally "to be taught" (perhaps also "to teach oneself" ?). The из- prepositional prefix interests me. Latin uses the exact same one in synonyms for the verb "to learn" :

discere : to learn
ēdiscere : to learn (thoroughly) [the preposition ē or sometimes ex has been added to intensify the verb, and ex/ē means "out of," just as из.]

Does из have a similar function in the verb изучать as ex does in ēdiscere?

Из словаря Гугла:

изучать

учиться

учить

Originally Posted by Лука

discere : to learn
ēdiscere : to learn (thoroughly) [the preposition ē or sometimes ex has been added to intensify the verb, and ex/ē means "out of," just as из.]

Does из have a similar function in the verb изучать as ex does in ēdiscere?

Sorry, I don't know Latin, but as far as i can see, you may be right. The examples will be still more similar if you take the Russian учить for discere, not учиться (e.g. учить наизусть - learn by heart, учить уроки - do homework etc.)

Спасибо!

In practice,

изучать = to study
учиться = to learn