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what's the difference between :Знать и Узнать ?
Думать и Подумать ?
Делать и Сделать ?
The difference between these words is an aspect. There are two kinds of an aspect - perfective and imperfective aspects. Perfective aspect means finishing a part of the work or all the work, imperfective aspect means that the work is continuing (kind of English verbs: 'was doing' - imperfective aspect, 'did', 'done' - perfective one).
"Знать" - imperfective aspect, "узнать" - perfective aspect;
"думать" -
"делать"
Look at the examples and compare:
Я знал, что русский язык прекрасен -
Я узнал, что русский язык прекрасен -
As you see - in the first case the sentence means 'I have been ALWAYS knowing' and - the process of knowing is STILL CONTINUING, but...
the second sentence means that 'I've JUST KNOWN' and - the process of knowing is FINISHED.
I hope you can understand that :)
I've known that the Russian language is beautiful.I have been knowing that the Russian language is beautiful; - imperfective aspect, "сделать" - perfective aspect.imperfective aspect, "подумать" - perfective aspect;Want to progress faster?
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