Thread: Valda - разные вопросы по глаголам

Originally Posted by Valda

Set a question?

Specify a question?

Never heard that, in English and I'm native to English. Also, it sounds wrong to me so I disagree.

When a school teacher provides a question in class for homework, we don't say that he "asked a question", we say he "set a question". The former would imply that he expected an answer straight away, while the latter makes clear that he expects the answer later.

I didn't mean to imply that the usage was the same in English as in Russian, merely that there is enough overlap to make understanding and remembering the Russian usage straightforward.

Originally Posted by Valda

Really? Can't you say спрасить вопрос?

Nope.