Timeline for Is there a specific verb for "going by a vehicle" like in other languages?
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| Nov 29, 2018 at 10:32 | history | edited | Glorfindel♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 29, 2018 at 10:28 | comment | added | TimR | ride a bike is correct. There, ride is transitive. But as you say, we do not "ride a car" (unless it is a train car or a trolley car). Rather, we "ride in a car" (e.g. in a sedan). | |
| Nov 29, 2018 at 10:16 | comment | added | Glorfindel♦ | I was always taught that you drive a car and ride a bike, but I'm happily corrected by a native speaker. | |
| Nov 29, 2018 at 10:15 | history | edited | Glorfindel♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 29, 2018 at 10:14 | comment | added | TimR | We ride in a car. There, ride is intransitive. | |
| Nov 29, 2018 at 9:55 | comment | added | Glorfindel♦ | Those have very specific meanings, e.g. hitchhiking when you're trying to get a free ride. | |
| Nov 29, 2018 at 9:53 | history | edited | Glorfindel♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 29, 2018 at 9:46 | comment | added | Virtuous Legend | Ok, thank you. What's about the other words that I brought in my question? (I took them from google translate as translated words for my request.) | |
| Nov 29, 2018 at 9:39 | comment | added | Glorfindel♦ | Yes, it's less common but I found another dictionary entry to support this. | |
| Nov 29, 2018 at 9:39 | history | edited | Glorfindel♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 29, 2018 at 9:34 | history | edited | Glorfindel♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 29, 2018 at 9:30 | comment | added | Virtuous Legend | "Drive" performs it in English even if I'm not the driver, like in other languages? As for your last paragraph, in other language the specific word is used for both: for the car and for the people who are inside. | |
| Nov 29, 2018 at 9:29 | history | answered | Glorfindel♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |