No. 3,595 in Russian
собирать
To collect, gather, or assemble.
In a sentence
Я собираю ягоды в лесу.
I am picking berries in the forest.
In this sentence, 'собирать' means 'to collect' or 'to pick,' referring to the action of gathering items like berries from the forest.
Мы собираемся в парке каждую субботу.
We gather in the park every Saturday.
Here, 'собираться' denotes 'to assemble' or 'to gather,' describing people coming together at a common location.
Он собирает модель самолёта.
He is assembling a model airplane.
'Собирать' in this usage means 'to assemble,' indicating putting parts together to form a complete object, like a model airplane.
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