If I want to say in Mongolian "I like to walk a lot in the holidays I need to say :
"Амралтын өдөр би их зугаалах дуртай"

But if I say "Амралтын өдөр би их явах дуртай" - It is not right because "Явах" means "to go" only.And if I say "Амралтын өдөр би их явах дуртай" it neans " In the holidays I like to go a lot" an this is not right.Then I must to say "Амралтын өдөр би их зугаалах дуртай", It's right ?

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If I want to say in Mongolian "I like to walk a lot in the holidays I need to say :
"Амралтын өдөр би их зугаалах дуртай"

But if I say "Амралтын өдөр би их явах дуртай" - It is not right because "Явах" means "to go" only.And if I say "Амралтын өдөр би их явах дуртай" it neans " In the holidays I like to go a lot" an this is not right.Then I must to say "Амралтын өдөр би их зугаалах дуртай", It's right ?

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явах means generally 'to go' while зугаалаах means 'take a stroll, have a walk'.  I would say your sentence means in English ' I like to take/have a walk at weekends'.

You can say, for example, "кинонд явах (go to the cinema), гадагшаа явах(go abroad, leave home), хурдан явах (go quickly), галт тэргээр явах(go by train), машинаар явах (go by car) etc so явах does not necessarily mean 'go on foot' .

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'зугаалах' is too general, and it can't implicit  'by foot'. Instead of it, I would use 'алхах' or 'явган аялах'.

I think it is better to drop 'их'. In Mongolian one can understand that you walk more than usual from the context. But anyway, if you want to emphasize that you walk much more than any other around you, include it.

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