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Top 500verb, imperfective

люби́ть

[lʲʉˈbʲitʲ]to love, to like, to be fond of, to grow fond of (more intensely than нра́виться)

Frequency rank #120 About 1 in every 960 words in Russian film and TV. The top 500 words make up 71.0% of everything said.
любить #120

Meaning

  1. to love, to like, to be fond of, to grow fond of (more intensely than нра́виться)

Examples

— Никто́ не ска́жет, бу́дто я / Тира́н и сумасбро́д, / За то́, что к ча́ю я люблю́ / Хоро́ший бутербро́д.

“No one would say that I / Am a tyrant and madman, / For the fact that with my tea I like / A good bread-and-butter sandwich.”

Related

Forms by frequency

  • люблю́singular, 1st person, present#211
  • лю́битsingular, 3rd person, present#619
  • лю́бишьsingular, 2nd person, present#775
  • люби́лmasculine, singular, past#1,190
  • люби́тьinfinitive#1,469
  • лю́бятplural, 3rd person, present#1,495
  • люби́лаfeminine, singular, past#1,744
  • люби́мыйpresent, participle#2,065
  • лю́бимplural, 1st person, present#2,588
  • лю́битеplural, 2nd person, present#2,637
  • люби́лиplural, past#3,699
  • люби́imperative, singular, 2nd person#15,280
  • лю́бящийpresent, participle#21,039
  • любя́present, gerund#44,118

and 5 more forms

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