russian word
to lie, be in a reclining position in Russian: лежать
verbimperfectivelevel A1#312 by frequency
every form stress-marked · levels from the official TORFL lexical minimum
Он любит лежать на диване весь день. He likes to lie on the sofa all day.
Я плохо себя чувствую и весь вечер лежу в постели. I feel unwell and have been lying in bed all evening.
Твои ключи лежат на столе в коридоре. Your keys are lying on the table in the hallway.
Этот маленький город лежит между двумя горами. This small town lies between two mountains.
What does лежать mean in Russian?
01
to lie, be in a reclining position (of a person or animal)
Aspect pair
This verb is imperfective: ongoing or repeated action. Its perfective partner, for a completed one-time result, is
лечьto lie down, assume a lying positionperfective
Conjugation of лежать
Stress marks show the stressed vowel; it moves between forms more often than learners expect.
| present | singular | plural |
|---|---|---|
| я / мы | лежу | лежим |
| ты / вы | лежишь | лежите |
| он / они | лежит | лежат |
| past | |
|---|---|
| masc | лежал |
| fem | лежала |
| neut | лежало |
| plural | лежали |
| imperative | |
|---|---|
| ты | лежи |
| вы | лежите |
Participles and gerunds
present activeлежащий
past activeлежавший
gerund (imperfective)лёжа
gerund (perfective)лежав
gerund (perfective)лежавши