For some reason, there are two stumbling blocks in the Russian language - these are the words: “put” and “lay down”. Let's try to figure out how to speak correctly, at the same time remembering the specific forms of the verb. Yes, yes, it is they who will help us understand: “lay down” or “put down” - which is correct?
About the perfect and imperfect form of the verb
In our language, every verb is either perfective (which answers the question "what to do?") or imperfective (which answers the question "what to do?"). They form aspectual pairs, and the root of the verbs included there, as a rule, is one:
(what to do?) learn - (what to do?) learn, (what to do?) hang - (what to do?) hang etc.
But you understand that in Russian everything is not so simple, there are always exceptions:
(what to do?) take – (what to do?) take, (what to do?) search - (what to do?) find, (what to do?) to catch – (what to do?) to catch.
Forfor a Russian speaker, they are not particularly difficult, except for a couple of rather “tricky” representatives of this part of speech: “put” and “put”. What is the correct way to say "lay down" or "lay down"? For some reason, many instead of the legal imperfect form of the verb try to use a non-existent one. There is no word for “lay down” in Russian!
So, "lay down" or "put" - which is correct?
The fact is that in most discussions on this topic, the answer is unequivocal: “The root -false- cannot be used without a prefix!” It is proposed to remember the following words that have a given root and the right to exist: lay, put, lay out, attach, shift, lay, etc. And without a prefix: I put, puts, puts, puts, etc.
But that's only partly true. The fact is that if you think like that, you will have to say: “lay out” or “lay”, although everyone knows the correct form of these verbs: lay out, lay.
It is the knowledge that the root -lie- is an accessory of the perfect form of the verb that will help to use it correctly. The verbs that we have given above belong to the imperfect form, and this form can only be transmitted by a variant of the verb: put.
"Lay down" or "lay down" - which is correct?
But many have heard the words of the song: “The snow falls and melts and melts…” How is it that the imperfect form of the verb is here, and the root is -false-? The fact is that our mysterious couple: put and put -again offers difficulty. If we have a reflexive form (that is, one that ends in -sya), then the root -false- is used in it. For example: “She gets into a clean bed.”.
Although there is also a reflexive form of the verb "put": "Here everything is put in one pile." How to be? So “lay down” or “put down” - how to say it correctly in a return form? It turns out that we must also remember about the voice of this verb. In the first sentence, the verb is active (snow falls by itself, she falls by herself). And in the second case, it is a passive voice: everything is put by someone.
So, before pronouncing ending in - Xia "to lay down" or "to lay", what is the right thing to do? You need to remember whether the object itself is doing something (meaning the root -false-) or performing an action with it (meaning the root -treasure-).
And finally
There is another, probably easier way to figure out how to speak correctly in each case. To do this, you need to remember that the root - lies - is used in the meaning of something that is above, on the surface. After all, the word "bed" is a surface for lying. And the root - a treasure -, as a rule, means what is inside. Remember, we dig up the treasure from the bowels of the earth. So, when you want to talk about what will be on top, you use the root - lies -. And if about what will be inside, then it will sound - a treasure -. Like this!
