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[olydiagron.livejournal.com]

Хелло!

All (yes, all!) my Russian teachers claim that 
искать - найти 
is an aspect pair. I think they are wrong, but then they are professional linguists, and I am not... 

I think the aspect pairs should be: 
искать - отыскать
находить - найти

What do you think?

бай! (как говорит отец Иннокентий)

Comments

[3dimka.livejournal.com]

искать - поискать?

I wouldn't mess up "искать" and "найти", they are different words. I wouldn't even call them synonyms, though I might be wrong. I could ask my mom, she's a teacher of Russian.

[olydiagron.livejournal.com]

"wouldn't mess up "искать" and "найти", they are different words."
yeah, thats what i think too. But my russian teachers claim otherwise.

[3dimka.livejournal.com]

She could be wrong, but it's not a question of life or death, is it? Russian language is not very strict and there's lot of exceptions and ambiguous words :)

[olydiagron.livejournal.com]

искать - поискать?
hm, i thouhgt about that as a pair too, poiskat' wpould be the perfect that denotes to do something a little, while otyskat' i the resultative. Oh this i s compicated!

[3dimka.livejournal.com]

I never realized how is difficult Russian. Language is not Math, it was not scientifically designed so there are many confusing and unexplainable things. Just take it easy or switch to Esperanto :)