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Top 1,000verb, imperfective

лежа́ть

[lʲɪˈʐatʲ]to lie

Frequency rank #832 About 1 in every 9,200 words in Russian film and TV. The top 1,000 words make up 77.5% of everything said.
лежать #832

Meaning

  1. to lie
  2. to be situated
  3. to rest, to be incumbent

Examples

Ма́льчик лежа́л на излече́нии.

A boy lay in recovery.

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Forms by frequency

  • лежи́тsingular, 3rd person, present#2,456
  • лежа́тьinfinitive#4,147
  • лежа́лmasculine, singular, past#6,003
  • лежа́тplural, 3rd person, present#8,161
  • лежа́лаfeminine, singular, past#8,669
  • лежи́imperative, singular, 2nd person#13,485
  • лежа́лиplural, past#13,714
  • лежу́singular, 1st person, present#17,526
  • лежа́лоneuter, singular, past#22,572
  • лежи́шьsingular, 2nd person, present#24,744
  • лёжаpresent, gerund#30,956
  • лежи́теplural, 2nd person, present#32,002
  • лежа́щийpresent, participle
  • лежа́вшийpast, participle

and 3 more forms

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