Re: (In)transitive verbs

Philippe Caquant wrote:

>I'm not quite sure for English, but in French, "nager"
>(to swim) is normally intransitive. Nevertheless, you
>can quite normally say "nager la brasse", "nager le
>crawl", etc. where the verb looks transitive.
>
>What does "nager le crawl" mean ? It means "to swim
>the crawl-way", "to swim *crawly". The direct object
>(noun)  stands for an adverbial concept.
>
>
It happens in English, too,  I suggest it's a different verb.  It means
'use X to swim', or something.