live – English verb conjugation

English verb forms of live

Nominal Forms

Infinitive: to live and breathe
Participle: lived and breathe
Gerund: living and breathe

Cognates

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Indicative

Present

Ilive and breathe
youlive and breathe
he;she;itlives and breathe
welive and breathe
youlive and breathe
theylive and breathe

Perfect

Ihave lived and breathe
youhave lived and breathe
he;she;ithas lived and breathe
wehave lived and breathe
youhave lived and breathe
theyhave lived and breathe

Past

Ilived and breathe
youlived and breathe
he;she;itlived and breathe
welived and breathe
youlived and breathe
theylived and breathe

Pluperfect

Ihad lived and breathe
youhad lived and breathe
he;she;ithad lived and breathe
wehad lived and breathe
youhad lived and breathe
theyhad lived and breathe

Future

Iwill live and breathe
youwill live and breathe
he;she;itwill live and breathe
wewill live and breathe
youwill live and breathe
theywill live and breathe

Future Perfect

Iwill have lived and breathe
youwill have lived and breathe
he;she;itwill have lived and breathe
wewill have lived and breathe
youwill have lived and breathe
theywill have lived and breathe

Subjunctive

Present

Ilive and breathe
youlive and breathe
he;she;itlive and breathe
welive and breathe
youlive and breathe
theylive and breathe

Perfect

Ihave lived and breathe
youhave lived and breathe
he;she;ithave lived and breathe
wehave lived and breathe
youhave lived and breathe
theyhave lived and breathe

Imperfect

Ilived and breathe
youlived and breathe
he;she;itlived and breathe
welived and breathe
youlived and breathe
theylived and breathe

Pluperfect

Ihad lived and breathe
youhad lived and breathe
he;she;ithad lived and breathe
wehad lived and breathe
youhad lived and breathe
theyhad lived and breathe

Conditional

Present

Iwould live and breathe
youwould live and breathe
he;she;itwould live and breathe
wewould live and breathe
youwould live and breathe
theywould live and breathe

Perfect

Iwould have lived and breathe
youwould have lived and breathe
he;she;itwould have lived and breathe
wewould have lived and breathe
youwould have lived and breathe
theywould have lived and breathe

Imperative

youlive and breathe
weLet's live and breathe
youlive and breathe

Progressive (Continuous) Forms

Indicative

Present

Iam living and breathe
youare living and breathe
he;she;itis living and breathe
weare living and breathe
youare living and breathe
theyare living and breathe

Perfect

Ihave been living and breathe
youhave been living and breathe
he;she;ithas been living and breathe
wehave been living and breathe
youhave been living and breathe
theyhave been living and breathe

Past

Iwas living and breathe
youwere living and breathe
he;she;itwas living and breathe
wewere living and breathe
youwere living and breathe
theywere living and breathe

Pluperfect

Ihad been living and breathe
youhad been living and breathe
he;she;ithad been living and breathe
wehad been living and breathe
youhad been living and breathe
theyhad been living and breathe

Future

Iwill be living and breathe
youwill be living and breathe
he;she;itwill be living and breathe
wewill be living and breathe
youwill be living and breathe
theywill be living and breathe

Future Perfect

Iwill have been living and breathe
youwill have been living and breathe
he;she;itwill have been living and breathe
wewill have been living and breathe
youwill have been living and breathe
theywill have been living and breathe

Conditional

Present

Iwould be living and breathe
youwould be living and breathe
he;she;itwould be living and breathe
wewould be living and breathe
youwould be living and breathe
theywould be living and breathe

Perfect

Iwould have been living and breathe
youwould have been living and breathe
he;she;itwould have been living and breathe
wewould have been living and breathe
youwould have been living and breathe
theywould have been living and breathe

Other

Verbs similar to 'live'

bive, clive, dive, give, hive, jive, lave, leve, lie, lige,

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms

to have permanent residence somewhere
reside
to survive
persist
to have a settled abode permanently or for a considerable time
abide, bedwell, belive, dwell, inhabit, occupy, reside, stay
to continue to exist
abide, aby, endure, go on, hold on, last, persist, remain, stick, stick it out, stick out
be
exist, breathe, continue, move, subsist
reside
dwell, abide, inhabit

Antonyms

to stop living; to become dead
be born, breathe, rise from the dead, subsist, die

Additional Information

Etymology

1. O.E. lifian (Anglian), libban (W.Saxon) "to be alive," also "to supply oneself with food, to pass life (in some condition)," from P.Gmc. stem *libæ (cf. O.N. lifa, O.Fris. libba, Ger. leben, Goth. liban "to live"), from PIE base *leip- "to remain, continue" (cf. Gk. liparein "to persist, persevere;" see leave).
"According to the Dutch Prouerbe ... Leuen ende laetan leuen, To liue and to let others liue." [Malynes, 1622]
To live it up "live gaily and extravagantly" is from 1951. To live up to "act in accordance with" is from 1694. To live (something) down "outwear (some slander or embarrassment)" is from 1842. To live with "cohabit as husband and wife" is attested from 1749; sense of "to put up with" is attested from 1937. Lived-in "inhabited, occupied" is first recorded 1873. Live-in (adj.) first attested, 1955. Liveable "suitable for living in" is from 1814, first attested in "Mansfield Park." Expression live and learn is attested from c.1620.
2. From Middle English lefe, lifen, libbe, libben, live, luvien, lyven, from Old English libban, lifian (“to live; be alive”), from Proto-West Germanic *libbjan, from Proto-Germanic *libjaną (“to live”), from Proto-Indo-European *leyp- (“to stick”).
3. Cognates
4. Cognate with Yola live (“to live”), North Frisian laawe, lawe, lewe, lewi, lewwe, lääwe (“to live”), Saterland Frisian lieuwje, líeuwje (“to live”), West Frisian libje (“to live”), Alemannic German läbe (“to live”), Cimbrian and Mòcheno lem (“to live”), Dutch leeven, leven (“to live”), German leben (“to live”), German Low German lęven (“to live”), Limburgish leve, léëve (“to live”), Luxembourgish liewen (“to live”), Vilamovian łaowa (“to live”), Yiddish לעבן (lebn, “to live”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål leve (“to live”), Faroese liva (“to live”), Icelandic lifa (“to live”), Norwegian Nynorsk leva, leve, liva (“to live”), Swedish leva (“to live”), Gothic 𐌻𐌹𐌱𐌰𐌽 (liban, “to live”); also Latin lippus (“half-sighted, myopic”), Greek λίπος (lípos, “fat, tallow”), Lithuanian lipti (“to stick”), Bulgarian лепя́ (lepjá, “to glue, paste, stick; to plaster, smear”), Czech lepit (“to glue, stick”), Macedonian лепи (lepi, “to glue, stick”), Polish lepić (“to mold; to glue, paste; to stick”), Russian лепи́ть (lepítʹ, “to fashion, sculpt, shape”), Serbo-Croatian лепити, лије́пити, lépiti, lijépiti (“to glue, paste; to stick”), Slovak lepiť (“to stick”), Slovene lepiti (“to stick”), Ukrainian ліпити (lipyty, “to mould, shape”), Sanskrit लिप् (lip, “to anoint, smear; to defile, soil, taint”), रिप् (rip, “deceit, fraud; injury; enemy, traitor”). See: Old English 'libban', Proto-Germanic '*libjaną', Frisian, Northern 'laawe', Frisian, Saterlandic 'lieuwje', Alemannic German 'läbe', Dutch 'leeven', German, old spelling 'leben', Luxembourgish 'liewen', Wymysorys 'łaowa', Faroese 'liva', Icelandic 'lifa', Norwegian, nynorsk 'leva', Swedish 'leva', Lithuanian 'lipti', Czech 'lepit', Macedonian 'лепи', Polish 'lepić', Russian 'лепи́ть', Serbo-Croatian 'лепити', Slovak 'lepiť', Slovene 'lepiti', Ukrainian 'ліпити', Sanskrit 'लिप्'.

Verbs referencing "live"

German, old spelling leben, Icelandic lifa, Norwegian, nynorsk leva, Swedish leva, Danish leve, Norwegian leve, German, Pennsylvania lewe, Faroese liva, Luxembourgish liewen, Latvian dzīvot, Proto-Slavic lьnǫti, Proto-Slavic lěpiti, Sanskrit लिम्पति, Alemannic German läbe.

Sample Sentences

  • We had experienced a pretty smart shock before coming below, which, but that we were the most sanguine people living, might have prepared us for the worst. The imaginative artist to whom I have already made allusion, has depicted in the same great work, a chamber of almost interminable perspective, furnished, as [...] (American Notes for General Circulation)
  • [...] time round the walls, ‘Ha ! the breakfast-room, steward—eh ? ’ We all foresaw what the answer must be: we knew the agony he suffered. He had often spoken of the saloon; had taken in and lived upon the pictorial idea; had usually given us to understand, at home, that to form a just conception of it, it would be necessary to multiply the size and furniture of an ordinary drawing-room by [...] (American Notes for General Circulation)
  • [...] patriarchal institution, and all that; but over and above the scene there broods a portentous shadow—the shadow of _law_. So long as the law considers all these human beings, with beating hearts and living affections, only as so many _things_ belonging to a master,—so long as the failure, or misfortune, or imprudence, or death of the kindest owner, may cause them any day to exchange a life of kind [...] (Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
  • [...] 'm a poor, miserable, forlorn drudge; I shall only drag you down with me, that's all. What's the use of our trying to do anything, trying to know anything, trying to be anything ? What's the use of living ? I wish I was dead ! ” (Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
  • “ Well, then, Eliza, hear my plan. Mas’r took it into his head to send me right by here, with a note to Mr. Symmes, that lives a mile past. I believe he expected I should come here to tell you what I have. It would please him, if he thought it would aggravate ’ Shelby's folks, ’ as he calls ’ em. I 'm going home quite [...] (Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
  • [...] is the hostess of this mansion, sir. It belongs to her. Nobody else has anything whatever to do with it. It is a large establishment, as you see, and requires a great number of attendants. She lives, you observe, in the very first style. She is kind enough to receive my visits, and to permit my wife and family to reside here; for which it is hardly necessary to say, we are much indebted to [...] (American Notes for General Circulation)
  • [...] a certain amount of weazen life may mope, and pine, and shiver, all day long, the building is divided into separate rooms, each with its share of light and air. In these, the better kind of paupers live. They have a motive for exertion and becoming pride, in the desire to make these little chambers comfortable and decent. (American Notes for General Circulation)
  • [...] of painted wood, something smaller than an English watch-box; or if this comparison should be insufficient to convey a just idea of its dimensions, they may be estimated from the fact of my having lived for fourteen days and nights in the firm belief that it was a shower-bath. (American Notes for General Circulation)
  • The contrast would be a strong one, for it would be between the Good and Evil, the living light and deepest shadow. I abstain from it, because I deem it just to do so. But I only the more earnestly adjure all those whose eyes may rest on these pages, to pause and reflect upon the [...] (American Notes for General Circulation)
  • [...] was not called a small steamboat without reason. I omitted to ask the question, but I should think it must have been of about half a pony power. Mr. Paap, the celebrated Dwarf, might have lived and died happily in the cabin, which was fitted with common sash-windows like an ordinary dwelling-house. These windows had bright-red curtains, too, hung on slack strings across the lower panes; [...] (American Notes for General Circulation)
  • Yes. You live with your mother, Sylviane, and your sister, Lila, at 2, rue Alain Zup, in the Grande Residence complex. (First Case)
  • I know where you live. I know where you live. (Psycho Therapy: The Shallow Tale of a Writer Who Decided to Write about a Serial Killer)
  • We 've both lived alone for so long, and... we are so very much ourselves. (Signed, Sealed, Delivered: A Tale of Three Letters)
  • Since the first time I saw her, I live in terror. My life is in his hands, and not the other way around. (The Wizard of the Kremlin)
  • Oh my God! There's a sign that says Whitechapel ! I 'm right where fuckin ' Jack the Ripper lives, boys ! (Standing on the Shoulders of Kitties)