Thread: пахать - пропахать

The verb пахать means to plough.As in to plough land.
Its other idiomatic expression means:

1)to work
2)to tire one's ass off at work

First you can use the verb when u want to say for instance:

1) Does your email work?
Твой е-мейл пашет?

2) Yeh im workin my ass off at work damn it
Вот я пашу на работе блин

3) We're ploughing farrow land
Мы пашем под пар

Keep up the good work VOLK. By the way in which language should we interpret this name? As it's russian meaning, or?

Best regards

Zhenya

пропахать also means to fall on speed and hurt yourself

Он свалися со скейта и пропахал носом по асфальту.