"She learned to shoot a bow."

Translation: Она научилась стрелять из лука.

[flootzavut]

I think I will always have the image of her shooting from an onion here LOL ;D

[Shady_arc]

Can you guess which word was borrowed from another language? ;)

[flootzavut]

I honestly haven't a clue! Whether I'm just being dim or not I'm not sure... ;)

[Shady_arc]

It is actually the onion-лук (a Germanic loanword, though an old one). The weapon uses "лук" in the native meaning of "arc, bent, curved" (not productive in the modern language).

[Indra927477]

In combined words the German "Lauch" is still used, though. Knoblauch =чеснок, Schnittlauch= зеленый лук and even Lauch = лук-порей. By the way, in Latvian we also have the same word for лук (bow) and зеленый лук (sprong onion)- it's "loks". With another intonation it is also круг like круг семьи. :-)

[Indra927477]

...I meant "spring onion". A typo up there.

[flootzavut]

Ahh, cool! Yeah, I never would've guessed that! :D

[OlegK.]

Now the song "She's Got the Лук" will never sound the same...

[Dan825049]

In Swedish ЛУК is LÖK, in Danish and Norwegian LÖG, so maybe the word is borrowed from the Swedish Vikings :)

[MatejPavlk1]

In Slovakian an Czech, "luk" is exactly "bow". But just bow, not onion

[Tina_in_Bristol]

I got this one as a multiple choice, so it really put me off choosing that translation. But after careful consideration of all the options, it still looked the most likely of an unlikely bunch, so I managed to get it right.

[Joke514096]

There are several plants in the onion family that have 'look' as part of their name in Dutch. :)

[Sean_Roy]

And, of course, in English there's the leek.

[Hoetd]

And garlic, which stems from gar-laec, which stems from.. etc, etc.

[flootzavut]

I have never ever made that connection lightbulb moment

[OlegK.]

You're right, it is part of the etymology for this word:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D0%BB%D1%83%D0%BA

[EEb42]

"She learned to shoot from a bow" ?

[Scial]

Why is "Она узнала стрелять из лука" wrong?

[Shady_arc]

Узнать only works with a noun or with a clause. It means obtaining new information in either case; for learning skills we use учиться/научиться.

For example, I know how shooting a bow works. However, I probably cannot really do it because I never tried and I do not own a bow.

[Scial]

Ah, right! I had forgotten. Thank you.

[alxndr.vncnt]

Как отличаются слова "научилась" и "научился"? "Научился" неправильно?

[Shady_arc]

В прошедшем времени русские глаголы согласуются по роду. Они не склоняются по лицам:

• Боб пришёл / Мэри пришла / Люди пришли / Время пришло.

Возвратный суффикс -СЯ добавляется в самый конец:

• учил + ся → учился
• учила + ся → училась

This madness is because Russian lost its legitimate past forms a long, long time ago. It uses the former Perfect instead, only without an auxiliary verb. So now we have past forms that behave awfully like adjectives—because, well, they were all participles (just like adjectives, Russian participles agree with the noun you attach them to).

[alxndr.vncnt]

Интересно. Спасибо большой!

[Lodijv]

"Она училась натягивать лук."?

[Kundoo]

"Натягивать лук" is "to draw a bow". That would imply she wasn't actually shooting yet.

[KevinFerna912326]

https://youtu.be/RsS4uCRrN_Y

[KevinFerna912326]

He learned it the hard way

[Flavivs]

What is the difference between выучить and научить?

[lisaliel]

Why can't you say изучала?

[Shady_arc]

изучить/изучить are not used with verbs. You may use them with nouns (изучала древнегреческую литературу) or clauses but not with infinitives.

[lisaliel]

Thanks. That makes sense.