Re: Transitive/Intransitive - to learn/study
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Originally Posted by zomby_pengy
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Originally Posted by tricoteuse
I had a discussion with a Russian friend about the verbs учиться and учить, and he explained that the first was intransitive and the second transitive. For учиться he gave the examples Учиться в школе and Учиться петь. But if it's intransitive, how come you still learn something, i.e. "learn how to sing". Isn't that transitive all of a sudden?
Can someone explain all that stuff with the different verbs for "to study" etc? I don't really get the difference.
the suffixes "-ся" and "-сь" usually give the meaning "to oneself". And verbs with these suffixes are intransitive, as they do not take any direct object
They also call them reflexive verbs because they reflex back onto the subject.