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    How do I express completed mono-directional movement in the past?

    Вчера в час я пошёл в город.


    It seems like this means that I left, but did not necessarily get there.

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    пошёл is the Perfective aspect so you must have completed your trip, I would have thought.
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    Вчера в час я ходил в город.

    http://masterrussian.net/mforum/viewtopic.php?t=4962
    Какая разница, умереть богатым или бедным?

    Какой толк от богатства если ты не счастлив.

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    Hmm......
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    Quote Originally Posted by kwatts59
    Вчера в час я ходил в город.

    http://masterrussian.net/mforum/viewtopic.php?t=4962
    Правильно - шел.

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    Yes...вчера в час я ходил в город is right. It implies that you went and are now back.. вчера в час я пошёл в город is kinda like...Yesterday at 1 i set off for the city....as if you left on a journey and have not yet returned.

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    But he wants to express this:

    It seems like this means that I left, but did not necessarily get there.
    In this case you are still in the process of "going" - so шел.

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    Well if he wanted to express the fact that he left and is still going...it would be вчера в час я пошёл в город because пошёл is kinda like "set off", not meaning for sure if he arrived. вчера в час я шёл would kinda be like, yesterday i was going to the city, when blah blah blah happened. шёл needs to be used when describing how one did something or describing something that happened while going.

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    See, I'm still not clear exactly. Obviously the imperfective ходить is used when saying "вчера я ходил в спотзал", but what if I am giving an account of things I did yesterday? I think what I am looking for is how to express going to a place that is in a sequence of places. "Вчера в два часа я [?] на стадион. Оттудa я [?] в университет. Наконец я [?] домой."

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    Quote Originally Posted by saibot
    Well if he wanted to express the fact that he left and is still going...it would be вчера в час я пошёл в город because пошёл is kinda like "set off", not meaning for sure if he arrived. вчера в час я шёл would kinda be like, yesterday i was going to the city, when blah blah blah happened. шёл needs to be used when describing how one did something or describing something that happened while going.
    I think we are trying to describe two different things here.

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    I think you would use пошёл for a sequence of events...because you set off from one place to the next....i may be wrong...perhaps a native speaker would like to elaborate

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pravit
    Quote Originally Posted by saibot
    Well if he wanted to express the fact that he left and is still going...it would be вчера в час я пошёл в город because пошёл is kinda like "set off", not meaning for sure if he arrived. вчера в час я шёл would kinda be like, yesterday i was going to the city, when blah blah blah happened. шёл needs to be used when describing how one did something or describing something that happened while going.
    I think we are trying to describe two different things here.
    You said that you were trying to get the point across that he was still going. Thats what i explained...i think...lol

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    Quote Originally Posted by Geoduck
    See, I'm still not clear exactly. Obviously the imperfective ходить is used when saying "вчера я ходил в спотзал", but what if I am giving an account of things I did yesterday? I think what I am looking for is how to express going to a place that is in a sequence of places. "Вчера в два часа я [?] на стадион. Оттудa я [?] в университет. Наконец я [?] домой."
    Вчера в два часа я ходил на стадион. Оттудa я ходил в университет. Наконец я вернулся домой.
    Какая разница, умереть богатым или бедным?

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    da...вернуться thats the word i was looking for...i couldnt figure out a way to say that he left and successfully made it home....good choice!

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    Re: i went

    Quote Originally Posted by Geoduck
    How do I express completed mono-directional movement in the past?

    Вчера в час я пошёл в город.


    It seems like this means that I left, but did not necessarily get there.
    It develops on how this story goes:

    1. Вчера в час я пошёл в город. По дороге встретил своего друга и решил зайти к нему на минуту.

    2. Вчера в час я пошёл в город. Походил по магазинам и вернулся.
    «И всё, что сейчас происходит внутре — тоже является частью вселенной».

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    Quote Originally Posted by kwatts59

    Вчера в два часа я ходил на стадион. Оттудa я ходил в университет. Наконец я вернулся домой.
    Nope, "ходил" in the second sentence means a repeating action: "Я ходил на стадион, в университет, в магазин" etc. Better: "Оттуда я пошёл в университет".
    «И всё, что сейчас происходит внутре — тоже является частью вселенной».

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