"Потом мы легли спать."
Translation:Afterwards we went to bed.
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No, лежать is the imperfective verb. Легли is the past tense of the perfective form лечь.
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Interesting, I looked it up and it seems to be used as the perfective of both: http://masterrussian.com/verbs/lezhat_lech.htm
http://masterrussian.com/verbs/lozhitsa_lech.htm
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Лежать, лечь ложь, ложиться. Кажется очень много слова для же смыслу. :)
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Я ещё начинал учиться когда я это написал.
What I meant to say is that all those words translate to "lie" in English: "Лежать", "лечь", "ложь", "ложиться".
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Aha! I thought it looked odd - thank you, have a lingot!
PS Is the singular form лег, or what?
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Thanks! By the way, a useful tip for in future: Enter the word in question here to get all the forms of it. http://starling.rinet.ru/cgi-bin/morphque.cgi?flags=endnnnnp
e.g. entering легли will give you this: http://starling.rinet.ru/cgi-bin/morph.cgi?flags=endnnnnproot=configword=%EB%E5%E3%EB%E8
Don't capitalise and use е instead of ё. It's a bit picky.
Edit: and that second link (looks like you'll have to copy + paste) will answer the question you just added :-) By the way, stress is marked with ' and ё with '' so it's лёг not лег.
Edit again: that second link doesn't seem to be working, but you can enter легли in the first one to get the same result.
Outstanding, thanks! Take a lingot. (I tried to give two, but it wouldn't do it.)
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I think "Went to sleep" would translate to пошли спать. Легли спать would be "lied down to sleep"
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I reckon "Потом" means "then" in a succession, e.g "and after that", while "тогда" refers to a passed time : "at that time", "back then"... I ate, then I went to bed : "Потом" / I was a very fine lad then : "тогда"
I edit my message to add that "тогда" is also the word used when "then" means "in this case" : if you do not want to eat your food, then i'll eat it
Would I be nitpicking to complain that "легли" wasn't introduced before asking us to write it down from the robot speech? At the last moment before giving up, I recognized the figure of speech, figured it out and confirmed with Google ...
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In english there is a difference between "later" and 'then". "Then" usually means right away after
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Just out of curiosity, could this also be used to mean something sexual? In English, it could.
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"Lied" means "didn't tell the truth." The simple past tense of "lie" (down to sleep) is "lay" (down to sleep).
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Does мы легли спать always involve a bed? Can't you do this when out camping?
I put *we lay down to sleep" (with the old prayer in mind), to avoid assuming a location not specified in the original - but apparently that is wrong!
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No, it doesn't necessarily involve a bed. "Lay down to sleep" must have been simply overlooked. (It's not something that immediately comes to mind as a translation of "лечь спать" — to me at least, even though it's the literal translation. We learners are just so used to "going to bed"...)
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"Afterward" and "Afterwards" are both proper English, and mean the same thing.
