How the #Russian verb 'to fly in’ went viral (having nothing to do with flying!) As you might know, the Russian language has a dozen of motion verbs. Many of them get additional meanings, sometimes so figurative that they have nothing to do with ...
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...the original ones. Or at least quite far from them. Let’s take the verb ‘залететь’ (‘zaletet’). It’s a form of the word ‘лететь’ (‘letet’), which means to fly. But, it has a ‘за-’ prefix, which indicates something is flying into a space, inside of some space. Penetrating inside by flight. “Воробей залетел в окно.” – “A sparrow flew into the window.”< But, it also has many figurative meanings. For example, “to drop into somewhere briefly”: “Залететь в кафе после работы.” (“To hop into a c...
