Thread: Разные вопросы по глаголам (by tiudavidharris

do you use prefixes with лазить, ползать, таскать?

Yes, we do:

лазить - залазить (to somewhere), полазить (for a short time), вылазить (from somewhere), влазить (inside somewhere), перелазить (over something) etc.
ползать - заползать, поползать, выползать, вползать, переползать, уползать, ...
таскать - затаскивать, вытаскивать, перетаскивать, утаскивать (but actually there's also a suffix, if without a suffix I can only think of a few examples like потаскать, истаскать, перетаскать).

Originally Posted by Боб Уайтман

перелазить (over something)

Or is it? I can only imagine this word used to describy climbing and exploring some not-so-user-friendly area thoroughly. Like "перелазить все стройки района". Climbing over something is "перелезать"

потаскать, истаскать, перетаскать

Also оттаскать (за волосы), натаскать (на экзамен по русскому) and, probably, other rarely used or colloquial combinations.

If you add a suffix, will it still be a verb of motion?
i know prefixes added to verbs of motion gives them patterned meanings.
do suffixes do change the meaning of verbs of motion as well?
ive never heard of them.
are the reflexive endings 'ся' and 'сь' what you mean?

Originally Posted by tiudavidharris

If you add a suffix, will it still be a verb of motion?
i know prefixes added to verbs of motion gives them patterned meanings.
do suffixes do change the meaning of verbs of motion as well?
ive never heard of them.
are the reflexive endings 'ся' and 'сь' what you mean?

Suffixes also change meaning, or, in this case (тащить --> затащить --> затаскивать) grammatical category, such as aspect (perfect/imperfect). -ся (сь) is a suffix for reflective verbs (mind, though, reflective meaning is only one of their functions). That's, actually, why suffixes are different from endings. In Russian grammar "endings" are only those building blocks that only change the word's form while still keep its lexical meaning (such as singular/plural, 1st person verb form - 3rd person verb form). By contrast, suffixes and prefixes are part of the stem: they are used to alter the meaning of the word (so in English a Russian teacher would call "-ment" in "government" a suffix, but "-ed" in past form "sustained" an ending).

Strictly speaking, you should only be aware of a limited amount of verbs of motion, such as идти/ходить, ехать/ездить, лететь/летать, плыть/плавать, ползти/ползать, нести/носить, вести/возить and a few others. There are many other verbs that mean some motion, but only these few have a distinction between "indefinite" (multidirectional) and "specific" (one-way trip) action. All other Russian verbs only have perfective/imperfective aspectual distinction.

May I ask why so many questions in so little time frame?

First of all, thank you for the help.
I am trying to build a basic understanding of the Russian Language.
Lately, I have been trying to construct sentences with verbs of motion and ran into difficulties.
I am actually almost done studying verbs of motion and their prefixed forms. I have studied most of the common verbs of motion already.
This is just a short phase of many questions I think.
Honestly, I independently study the Russian language daily. I want to move to Russia someday and the language is one of the challenges i face.