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Top 1,000verb, imperfective

лгать

[ˈɫɡatʲ]to lie; to tell lies

Frequency rank #917 About 1 in every 10,000 words in Russian film and TV. The top 1,000 words make up 77.5% of everything said.
лгать #917

Meaning

  1. to lie; to tell lies

Examples

лгать кому́-либо в глаза́

to lie to someone's face

Related

Forms by frequency

  • лга́тьinfinitive#3,661
  • лга́лmasculine, singular, past#6,045
  • лжётsingular, 3rd person, present#7,067
  • лжёшьsingular, 2nd person, present#8,970
  • лгала́feminine, singular, past#9,140
  • лгу́singular, 1st person, present#11,071
  • лгу́тplural, 3rd person, present#11,479
  • лга́лиplural, past#15,461
  • лги́imperative, singular, 2nd person#18,082
  • лжётеplural, 2nd person, present#18,246
  • лгу́щийpresent, participle
  • лга́вшийpast, participle
  • лжя́present, gerund
  • лга́вpast, gerund

and 4 more forms

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