Ability and characteristic behaviour
Recognise dispositional readings of multidirectional verbs.
Ребёнок уже ходит can mean the child can walk. Она хорошо плавает expresses swimming ability. Он водит автобус can describe an occupation.
- Ability is not literal repeated trips.
- General characteristic favours the multidirectional partner.
- Context supplies the dispositional reading.
Verified general-motion examples
The catalog supplies stored paradigms for these general motion verbs.
плавать: swim generally / have swimming abilityлетать: fly generallyбегать: run generallyMini-check