Russian Question: Difference between наружу and снаружи
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Russian Question: Difference between наружу and снаружи
They appear to be synonyms, are they interchangeable? Is one better for some contexts than others?
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Re: Russian Question: Difference between наружу and снаружи
I'm not a linguist but just an ordinary native speaker, please keep it in the mind . I don't see these two words as synonyms, although maybe in certain circumstances they could be synonyms. 'Наружу' is a direction. It could be an answer to the question 'куда?'. 'Снаружи' is kinda a place where someone or something is located, in this case the question would be 'где?'.
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To you they appear to be synonyms both meaning "outside"; to me it feels like снаружи means "outside" while наружу means "outwards", except that for some reason English speakers overuse the word "outside" and keep using it when "outwards" clearly makes more sense (e.g. "Wanna take it outside?")
Jokes aside, it's pretty much as aaleks said - one's a location, the other's a direction. Now that isn't to say that the distinction is always clear cut - for example, one of the ways to say "outie" would be пупок наружу, even though the navel isn't moving anywhere (but then, cases like this can be argued to have an implied verb/participle, like пупок торчащий наружу - navel protruding outwards). Still, these cases are marginal and the general rule works most of the time. Same with вовнутрь and внутри, вниз and внизу, etc.
Jokes aside, it's pretty much as aaleks said - one's a location, the other's a direction. Now that isn't to say that the distinction is always clear cut - for example, one of the ways to say "outie" would be пупок наружу, even though the navel isn't moving anywhere (but then, cases like this can be argued to have an implied verb/participle, like пупок торчащий наружу - navel protruding outwards). Still, these cases are marginal and the general rule works most of the time. Same with вовнутрь and внутри, вниз and внизу, etc.
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Re: Russian Question: Difference between наружу and снаружи
aaleks wrote:I'm not a linguist but just an ordinary native speaker, please keep it in the mind . I don't see these two words as synonyms, although maybe in certain circumstances they could be synonyms. 'Наружу' is a direction. It could be an answer to the question 'куда?'. 'Снаружи' is kinda a place where someone or something is located, in this case the question would be 'где?'.
That makes sense! Thanks!
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Re: Russian Question: Difference between наружу and снаружи
"Наружу" more frequently use with direction and "снаружи" with place.
For example:
Давай пойдём (where?) наружу (direction). - Они разговаривают (where?) снаружи (place)
Мышь вылезла наружу (direction) и снаружи (place) нашла сыр.
For example:
Давай пойдём (where?) наружу (direction). - Они разговаривают (where?) снаружи (place)
Мышь вылезла наружу (direction) и снаружи (place) нашла сыр.
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