russian word
to live, reside, dwell in Russian: жить
verbimperfectivelevel A1#126 by frequency
every form stress-marked · levels from the official TORFL lexical minimum
Они живут в деревне. They live in a village.
Я живу в этом городе уже десять лет. I have been living in this city for ten years now.
Собаки живут около пятнадцати лет. Dogs live about fifteen years.
Человек не может жить без воды. A person cannot live without water.
What does жить mean in Russian?
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to live, reside, dwell
Aspect pair
This verb is imperfective: ongoing or repeated action. Its perfective partner, for a completed one-time result, is
прожитьto live (for a period of time)perfective
Conjugation of жить
Stress marks show the stressed vowel; it moves between forms more often than learners expect.
| present | singular | plural |
|---|---|---|
| я / мы | живу | живём |
| ты / вы | живёшь | живёте |
| он / они | живёт | живут |
| past | |
|---|---|
| masc | жил |
| fem | жила |
| neut | жило / жило |
| plural | жили |
| imperative | |
|---|---|
| ты | живи |
| вы | живите |
Participles and gerunds
present activeживущий
past activeживший
gerund (imperfective)живя
gerund (imperfective)живучи
gerund (perfective)жив
gerund (perfective)живши