Hello,
I just came across the verb откликнуться in the sense of 'answering a call'. After some digging into it's morphology, I see that it comes from кликнуть which means 'to call'. So the root means 'to call', and adding ot- and -ся around it makes it become 'to answer the call'.
I thought this was interesting and was wondering what the logic behind it was. Is this a consistent pattern with the same effect across several such verb pairs?
Thanks.
I just came across the verb откликнуться in the sense of 'answering a call'. After some digging into it's morphology, I see that it comes from кликнуть which means 'to call'. So the root means 'to call', and adding ot- and -ся around it makes it become 'to answer the call'.
I thought this was interesting and was wondering what the logic behind it was. Is this a consistent pattern with the same effect across several such verb pairs?
Thanks.