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[wolfie-18.livejournal.com]

Thinking about the verbs of motion, I find myself to not exactly understand the differences between some of the prefixes. I'll be using ходить as an example...

выходить as opposed to уходить as opposed to отходить
доходить as opposed to подходить

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[poluzhivago.livejournal.com]

ходить = to go, to walk;
уходить = leave; go away / off; depart;
выходить = to go out, to get out;
доходить = to reach (on foot);
подходить = to come up, to approach;
отходить = to move away / off.

[yuula.livejournal.com]

ha, i was about to reply that though you seem to be doing a better job than me.

[temcat.livejournal.com]

Доходить can mean "reach" in a more genal context: температура там доходила до 30 градусов.

[poluzhivago.livejournal.com]

Well, most of these words have several meaning. I guess wolfie_18 was asking about "walking"-related meanings.

[oryx_and_crake]

выходить and уходить can be synonims sometimes

e.g. "Я сейчас выхожу" and "Я сейчас ухожу" - I am leaving (home) in a few minutes.

The difference is somewhat difficult to explain, but maybe this helps:
вы-ходить is more like describing a physical motion of leaving a small space for a bigger one: выходить из автобуса, выходить из двери, выходить на поле, выходить на сцену (to get of the bus, to go out through the door, to go out onto the field, to appear on the stage).

у-ходить is just leaving; он ушел из дому - he left home.

отходить - to walk away from, to put some distance between you and the object
(also is used for "to recover" and "to die", paradoxically)

доходить - to reach, подходить - to approach (also to fit, to suit - "Эти условия мне подходят" These conditions suit me.)
Я дошел до колодца - I walked as far as the well
Я подошел к колодцу - I approached the well.

[malaya-zemlya.livejournal.com]

выходить to go out, to exit (the motion is from inside to outside of some enclosure).

уходить to leave, to go away
отходить - to step back (as opposed to уходить it doesn't imply leave complete leave. an object A gets further away from an object B but doesn't go away entirely)

доходить - to reach (and also means to be about to die from sickness or starvation)

подходить - to come closer
(in the first case you reach your destination, in the second case you just position yourself closer to an object, it's an opposite of отходить)

приходить - to come (the motion is toward the speaker, it's an opposide of уходить )

входить - to enter (an opposite of выходить)

[noser.livejournal.com]

выходить = to go out (sometimes, to exit); уходить = to leave; отходить = to walk away from, to step away from.

E.g. you can say "to go out the door", but you can't say "to leave the door" in English, right? It is exactly the same way in Russian: "выходить из двери", but not "уходить из двери".

Likewise, "Выход" = "(the) Exit", "Уход" = "(the) Leave". "Step away from your vehicle!" = "Отойдите от машины!"

[wolfie-18.livejournal.com]

*Take into account that I've never been to Russia*

I've seen выход on exits from clubs and ship doors, but I've never seen a выезд. I'm guessing that they would be found by highway exits, but then again, I don't think Moscow has a highway system, at least not like the US with its Interstate Highways. Where would one encounter a выезд?

[noser.livejournal.com]

Выезд is like a выход, but for cars. I guess a parking lot exit would translate into выезд. A driveway, too.

For highways (шоссе) I think it's usually called съезд. Съезжать = go down smth (in a car), as in "go down a hill" = "съезжать с холма".

[zhp.livejournal.com]

In some contexts, the verbs уходить и выходить, although synonymous, can have different shades of meaning/ Say, you came to some office and want to see Anna Petrovna. They say to you: Её нет, она ушла. - It means that she's already left and probably won't be here today. But if they say, Её нет, она вышла, - it means that she's gone out for a moment and will be here shortly (although, to tell the truth, these "moments" can last for ages :))