Thread: Making it up

Originally Posted by Throbert McGee

I love this whole thread! I'm often not sure of the exact difference between придумать, выдумать, and изобрести. (And some conceptually similar terms like сделать вид and притвориться, etc.)

Well that makes two of us. Using the right word for the context is sort of like a game of pin the tail on the donkey for me. I run about, blindfolded, and try to stick the right word into the right context, and sometimes I stick it in the wrong place.