Thread: How to describe a multi-stop route & verbs of motion

Originally Posted by Боб Уайтман

It's right. Каждый месяц я езжу в Исландию.
I did not get the idea of this comment. What do you mean by "return trips are not necessarily implied by the word itself"?

Some users wound up with the round-trip idea and got "scolded" by other "natives" - something along the following lines:
- ездили just means "you went there" and nothing else; there's no such thing as a return trip that is explicitly stated by just seeing ездить in a sentence

That's why I got confused. Most of the grammar sources incl. books did not yield any useful details either.
Some algebra never hurts - ^^

Thx for your help!

Originally Posted by Cumulus

Some users wound up with the round-trip idea and got "scolded" by other "natives" - something along the following lines:
- ездили just means "you went there" and nothing else; there's no such thing as a return trip that is explicitly stated by just seeing ездить in a sentence

Oh! They just do not get the idea of what the "round trip" means in sense of grammar. If someone says "Я ездил в X", it is clear that he is not in X now. That's what it actually means.

You know, the difference between natives and non-natives is that: non natives stick to theory and when they see a usage which contradicts the theory as they think, they ask for an explanation why. But natives just use the language as they are used to it, and they try to deduct some theory from multiple examples of real usages. And this deduction is not always that easy.

Anyway, I believe you "feel" the language quite well!

Originally Posted by Боб Уайтман

You know, the difference between natives and non-natives is that: non natives stick to theory and when they see a usage which contradicts the theory as they think, they ask for an explanation why. But natives just use the language as they are used to it, and they try to deduct some theory from multiple examples of real usages. And this deduction is not always that easy.

Finding the links between theory & reality ain't always straight forward to non-natives. I could think of analogies w/ other languages. Yeah, your right.