russian word
to love in Russian: любить
verbimperfectivelevel A1#181 by frequency
every form stress-marked · levels from the official TORFL lexical minimum
Я люблю свою семью. I love my family.
Она очень любит своего мужа. She loves her husband very much.
Дети любят сладкое. Children love sweets.
Я люблю гулять по вечерам. I like to take walks in the evenings.
Aspect pair
This verb is imperfective: ongoing or repeated action. Its perfective partner, for a completed one-time result, is
полюбитьto come to love, to fall in love with (a person)perfective
Conjugation of любить
Stress marks show the stressed vowel; it moves between forms more often than learners expect.
| present | singular | plural |
|---|---|---|
| я / мы | люблю | любим |
| ты / вы | любишь | любите |
| он / они | любит | любят |
| past | |
|---|---|
| masc | любил |
| fem | любила |
| neut | любило |
| plural | любили |
| imperative | |
|---|---|
| ты | люби |
| вы | любите |
Participles and gerunds
present activeлюбящий
past activeлюбивший
present passiveлюбимый
past passiveлюбленный
gerund (imperfective)любя
gerund (perfective)любив
gerund (perfective)любивши