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perfectives: different root

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Russian Suppletive Aspectual Pairs In Russian, most verbs form their aspectual pairs (Imperfective vs. Perfective) by adding a prefix or changing...

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Why do you always borrow my car?
Почему ты всегда берёшь мою машину?
Pochemu ty vsegda beryosh' moyu mashinu?
I only borrowed it because mine broke down.
Я взял её только потому, что моя сломалась.
Ya vzyal yeyo tol'ko potomu, chto moya slomalas'.
She always used to put her things anywhere.
Она всегда клала свои вещи куда попало.
Ona vsegda klala svoi veshchi kuda popalo.
In the end, she put them all in the suitcase.
В конце концов она положила их все в чемодан.
V kontse kontsov ona polozhila ikh vse v chemodan.
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