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Top 500verb, imperfective

жить

[ʐɨtʲ]to live

Frequency rank #164 About 1 in every 1,500 words in Russian film and TV. The top 500 words make up 71.0% of everything said.
жить #164

Meaning

  1. to live
  2. to reside

Examples

жить на широ́кую но́гу

to live in a grand style

Related

Forms by frequency

  • жи́тьinfinitive#372
  • жи́вpast, gerund#1,137
  • живётsingular, 3rd person, present#1,253
  • живу́singular, 1st person, present#1,529
  • жи́лmasculine, singular, past#1,701
  • живу́тplural, 3rd person, present#2,134
  • жила́feminine, singular, past#2,578
  • жи́лиplural, past#2,598
  • живёшьsingular, 2nd person, present#2,969
  • живёмplural, 1st person, present#3,874
  • живётеplural, 2nd person, present#5,892
  • живи́imperative, singular, 2nd person#7,474
  • живя́present, gerund#20,368
  • живу́щийpresent, participle#24,191

and 5 more forms

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