Thread: убирать или убрать

What is the difference of meaning between these two sentences

Я должен убрать мою комнату

и

Я должен убирать мою комнату

First sentence is using the prefective and the second the imperfective

In first sentence I would say the meaning puts the stress on the action in itself

The second puts the stress on the lenght of the action?

Perfective and Imperfective is still confusing in many cases, especially the infinitive.


Thank you

Mordan

Svoyu komnotu! not moyu

and for cleaning i think they'd say Pirbrat'sya

Я должен убрать мою комнату - You say you must clean it now or in the near future (but just once)

Я должен убирать мою комнату - Here the meaning is that you should clean your room periodically every time it gets dirty

Morgan, you are right, don't listen to the people

убрать - perfective, emphasis on a necesserity of an action itself (Eventually I have to clean my room or cockroaches will scare chicks away).

убирать - imperfective, emphasis on time (I can't go to the concert with you, people, because I have to clean my room - like right now or my Dad will kill me)

Originally Posted by Gerty

Morgan, you are right, don't listen to the people

убрать - perfective, emphasis on a necesserity of an action itself (Eventually I have to clean my room or cockroaches will scare chicks away).

убирать - imperfective, emphasis on time (I can't go to the concert with you, people, because I have to clean my room - like right now or my Dad will kill me)

Thx :0

do I really have to use свою?

I mean do we say я люблю свою подругу ? It sounds weird.

MorDan

You can say without свою but the meaning changes.

Both are equally acceptable here.

Yes except they arn't equally acceptable. This forum has a sh*tty habbit of saying one thing then saying another.

If you say Moyu komnotu that means i have to clean mine, and not yours or ned's or anybody else's.

If you say Svoyu then it emphasizes your room.

Please, dont say one thing then say im wrong when i just repeat what someone told me. Thanks!

I think the meaning was the same between:

я люблю свою подругу and
я люблю подругу

Again, Dogboy, both are gramatically correct and sound natural here. In other sentences they may not be. Welcome to learning Russian and good luck.

BTW I only responsible for what I say, and I happen to not always agree with everyone on this forum or anywhere else.

Originally Posted by adoc

Again, Dogboy, both are gramatically correct and sound natural here. In other sentences they may not be. Welcome to learning Russian and good luck.

BTW I only responsible for what I say, and I happen to not always agree with everyone on this forum or anywhere else.

What do you mean to welcome to learning russian. Welcome to telling time. Its 2005, can u see when i joined?

No problem. Expressions do not always follow rules. You'd have to actually have lived in Russia for some time, preferably with someone Russian, to be fully comfortable with the language.

I'd say свою....although there're some sentences in my russian book I cannot understand why ppl use МОЮ instead of СВОЮ

Originally Posted by krobatshov

I'd say свою....although there're some sentences in my russian book I cannot understand why ppl use МОЮ instead of СВОЮ

http://masterrussian.net/mforum/viewtop ... 5775#45775
http://www.spelling.spb.ru/rosenthal/alpha/r168.htm

The general rule to follow is: perfective verbs put the focus on the result of a one-time action. Use an imperfective verb if you don't want to stress this.

I have to get my room cleaned.
Obviously we are looking at the result of a one time action.

I have to clean my room.
We don't know if you mean right now, or repeatedly every week or month. It's a general statement, focus is on the action, not the result.