[Ver006] Жить - *practice using the prepositional!*

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Жить:

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To Live - Type I conjugation - Related word - Жизнь (f) - life

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I thought I'd cover this one next, since we can use it very nicely with the prepositional case - ie "I live(d) in..."

But first, let's conjugate this little guy... Since it's such a short verb we should already be somewhat careful:

• Note: the root is a bit different, жив-/жи-... see the end of the post for why this might be

Кто?	Жить
Я	Живу
Ты	Живёшь
Он, Она, Оно	Живёт
Мы	Живём
Вы	Живёте
Они	Живут

Note the stress consistently at the end, which makes for all of those ё's

Gender	Conjugation
M	Жил
F	Жила
N	Жило
Pl	Жили

So, now we can tell people where we live!

• Где ты живёшь?

• Я живу в лондоне.

• Где живёт Лена?

• Она живёт в Москве.

• Где живёт бездомный?

• Он живёт в парке :(

• Где они живут?

• Они живут в России (Россия -> ии)

Recognize that? Без means without, дом means house/home... бездомный is a homeless person.

• Я жил в италии (италия ends in ия -> ии)

• I'm a guy - if you're female, use жила, it's determined by gender!

• Она жила в мексике (мексика имен. sing)

• Они жили в Нью-Йорке.

• note: these all use в, because we're mainly talking about cities/countries, which use в, but на might technically be used to answer this kind of question. If someone 'lived' at work:

Он живёт на работе

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if we were to remove the whole ить from the end, we'd be left with only ж- as our root. So we only remove the -ть, leaving us with жи-, but "я жиу, etc" doesn't make much sense does it? So the root is жи-, and in the present we add a в. There is no way that I can think of, of arriving at this conclusion by yourselves but at least it's nice to rationalize why something might not be the way you expect it.

And If that's confusing, just look at it for a minute every day for the next week and memorize it - it's an important verb, and if you memorize enough, you'll automatically gain a feeling for that ^