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[clownshoes.livejournal.com]

"You can go there by walking."
Вы можно идти туда идя.

"Is the University stop coming soon?"
Университетская остановка прибывает скоро?

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[ex-eugzol340.livejournal.com]

Вы можете идти/дойти туда пешком.

Остновка Университет скоро?

[annyway.livejournal.com]

Скоро будет остановка "Университет"? - if University is the name of the station, or Скоро будет остановка у/возле университета?

[trepang.livejournal.com]

Туда можно дойти пешком.

[laew.livejournal.com]

You can go there by walking.
Туда можно дойти пешком.

"Is the University stop coming soon?"
Скоро будет остановка «Университет»?

[kragoth.livejournal.com]

What is дойти all about? There are certain prefixes I don't know anything about, and до- is one of them. Could you explain it to me? I hope to make it so that I can visualize this prefix when used in a sentence - or in other words, become able to understand it's meaning without translating (Like I can do with simple words like убегать, прибегать, проходить, et cetera).

[oryx_and_crake]

дойти is до- attached to a shortened version of идти

[kragoth.livejournal.com]

I knew this from the word пойти. I was aiming more towards the meaning.

[samtaburetkin.livejournal.com]

It's a way to make an imperfect verb (идти) a perfect one (прийти, дойти). Also: делать (imperfect) -- сделать, доделать (perfect). There's also приделать which means "to attach" -- a pretty physical sense, unlike the more abstract делать or сделать. I think you could say that the meaning of до- prefix in verbs is to increase, expand, improve something to a certain level, and consider it finished at that. Дойти -- to come to a certain point. Долить -- to pour to a certain level. Доделать -- to finish the work.

While we are at it -- найти might also be a prefixed derivative of идти. Never thought about it, probably because the meaning is so totally different of what is usually implied by the prefix на- (which is usually pretty close to the preposition "onto": надвигать means to move onto something; нарастить means to add some stuff on top of what's already there).

[kragoth.livejournal.com]

Thank you very much! It makes perfect sense. :-)

[joliecanard.livejournal.com]

To simplify, до- has the basic meaning of "up to, until"
дойти can also be glossed as "to approach" in the physical sense - walk up to a person = approach a person.

[kragoth.livejournal.com]

Couldn't you say "подойти" is approach too? Под- means to approach something, but not cross borders. If you said "при-", тhen you'd be invading someone's personal space. But Pod-'s use (which is stated in my textbook) makes it seem like I could use it for approach.

[joliecanard.livejournal.com]

Yes, you can use под- too. From Муравьева, Л.С. "Глаголы движения в русском языке."

"Verbs of motion with the prefixes при-, до- and под- are often used in similar situations, e.g., Мы приехали в Москву. Мы доехали до Москвы. Мы подъехали к Москве. The difference in meaning is as follows: the prefix при- stresses the attainment of the goal of movement; the prefix до- points to the limit reached by the agent of movement but tells us nothing about the goal of movement; the prefix под- merely stresses approaching."

[kragoth.livejournal.com]

Очень полезно! Большое Спасибо!

[laew.livejournal.com]

Sorry, I haven't had an Internet access till now.
samtaburetkin's and joliecanard's replies look comprehensive. If anything is not clear yet, I'll be happy to assist, too.

[kragoth.livejournal.com]

It's ok. I'm pretty sure I understood them both, so I won't need your help. But I appreciate the offer. :-)

[korica.livejournal.com]

You can go there by walking.
Ты можешь дойти туда гуляя.

Нет?

[laew.livejournal.com]

Нет.

I see, you are Russian. Then, no explanations here, 'cause it's not learn_english.

[korica.livejournal.com]

Ok. I just asked :)