ОТ Some other prefixes used with the
verbs of motion mean going away, for example,
отойти/отходить, отъехать/отъезжать, отбежать/отбегать, отплыть/отплывать. As you can see, fewer verbs can be used with
от.
- Когда бабушка ждёт внучку, она не отходит от окна. When the grandmother waits for her granddaughter, she is standing by the window.
- Отойдите от собаки, она кусается! Get away from the dog, it bites!
- Как только я отъезжаю от города, сигнал пропадает. As soon I go away from the city I never get the signal.
- Мы опоздали — последний поезд уже отъехал от платформы. We were late — the las train had left the platform.
- Паром отплывает от порта в 9. A ferry departs from the port at 9.
- Собака прыгнула в воду и отплыла от лодки. A dog jumped in the water and started swimming away from the boat.
- Мальчик отбежал далеко от дома и потерялся. A boy ran far away from home and got lost.
- Женщина отошла от кассы и положила продукты в пакет. A woman walked away from the cashier's and put food in the bag.
To tell you the truth, this mnemonic phrase
"в-из на-с к-от" is not my idea. Once I had a Russian class in
"Enjoy Russian school" with my students and one of them asked: "How do you know where to put these prepositions?" And then
Italian student Celeste shared her trick with us, which she knows thanks to her Russian teacher. If you know more mnemonic phrases and words, please leave comments and make other students' lives easier!
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