Word
Идите прочь.
Meaning
Go away.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
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Questions & Answers about Идите прочь.
Why is it идите and not иди?
Идите is the imperative form used for:
- more than one person: Go away, all of you
- one person politely/formally: like vous in French or Sie in German
If you were speaking to one person informally, you would say иди прочь.
So:
- иди прочь = to one person, informal
- идите прочь = to several people, or to one person formally
What exactly is идите grammatically?
Идите is the imperative of идти, which means to go or to be going on foot.
In this sentence, it means go!
A useful thing to know is that Russian often uses forms of идти in commands even when English would simply say go. So идите is a very normal way to form a command.
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