Comments on: Word of the Week: «Учиться»

By: Delia

Delia — Sun, 08 May 2011 15:23:25 +0000

I want to correct my mistake: Я учу русскому языку – DATIVE, not Instrumental

By: Delia

Delia — Sun, 08 May 2011 15:21:42 +0000

Учить has two meanings to study/to learn and to teach.
Я учу русский язык – I study Russian (accusative after the verb as it is direct object)
Я учу русскому языку – I teach Russian (Dative as indirect object)
Выучить – is perfect of “to study”
Научить – is perfect of “to teach”

By: Delia

Delia — Sat, 07 May 2011 16:11:03 +0000

WHat I found missing here: “учить” means both to learn/to study and to teach.
Я учу русский язык – I study Russian (accusative as direct object)
Я учу русскому языку – I teach Russian (instrumental as indirect object)
ВЫУЧИТЬ is perfective of to study/to learn
НАУЧИТЬ is perfective of to teach

By: Josefina

Josefina — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 04:27:01 +0000

@Stas: Мне лень было (у кого не бывает?) write the usage difference between выучить и научить, and that’s why it is not that apparent from the list above. So thank you for clearing that one out for me!

@Igor: Yes, it is a common known fact in linguistics that the sound ‘k’ likes to change in to ‘ч’, so наука, научный are all really third cousins of “учить”

By: Igor

Igor — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 23:07:12 +0000

Josephina, great blog!
You say “I suppose it would take a long time to gather all these words related to each other together all in one place, just like it takes much effort to gather a family of humans together”. I like it and I have put it down into my pocket-book.

TO ADD
1. OK, you write that “These words all share the root «уч» which can be found in the following words” etc. I think that the root “уч-” is closely related to “ук-”. I mean the interchange of sounds in the root “уч-”/”ук-”:
“УЧить” to learn;
“наУКа” – science, literally “learning”;
“наУКа” – “наУЧный” (scientific)

Best regards!
Igor