/lɪv/
Translation
To have your home in a place, or to be alive.
Word origin
From Old English lifian, meaning to be alive or to dwell in a place.
- Origin
- Old English
- Root
- lifian
Grammar
Examples
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"Live" means to have your home in a place.
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"Lives" is the form used with he, she, or it.
France .
"Lived" is the past form of "live".
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Future in the past: was going to, would, was about to, and the grammar of plans that failed
English grammar test: 30 questions with answers (A2-B2)
Indirect questions in English: Could you tell me where the station is, and the word order that goes with it
Mixed conditionals in English: past causes with present results, and present causes with past results
Participle clauses in English: -ing and -ed clauses, and the dangling participle trap
Advanced passive structures in English: the get-passive, it is said that, and passives with two objects
Present perfect continuous: have been doing, and how it differs from the present perfect
Present perfect tense: rules, examples and when to use it
Present simple tense: rules, examples and when to use it
Quantifiers in English: some, any, much, many and more
Reported speech in English: backshift, questions and commands
Reporting verbs in English: admit, deny, suggest, promise, and the pattern welded to each one
The subjunctive and the unreal past in English: I suggest he go, if I were you, and it's time we left
English tenses explained: all 12 with a master table
Used to, would and be used to: talking about past habits and states in English
Word formation in English: how suffixes build word families and give away the part of speech
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