Conjugaison de live en anglais, définition complète, liste de synonymes, inventaire des expressions et phrasal verbs liés à ce verbe : voici notre fiche complète !
Tableaux de conjugaison de to live en anglais
Conjugaison du verbe live à l’indicatif
Le verbe live au present simple
- I live
- you live
- he/she/it lives
- we live
- you live
- they live
Le verbe live au present continuous
- I am living
- you are living
- he/she/it is living
- we are living
- you are living
- they are living
Le verbe live past simple
- I lived
- you lived
- he/she/it lived
- we lived
- you lived
- they lived
Le verbe live au past continuous
- I was living
- you were living
- he/she/it was living
- we were living
- you were living
- they were living
Le verbe live au present perfect
- I have lived
- you have lived
- he/she/it has lived
- we have lived
- you have lived
- they have lived
Le verbe live au present perfect continuous
- I have been living
- you have been living
- he/she/it has been living
- we have been living
- you have been living
- they have been living
Le verbe live au past perfect
- I had lived
- you had lived
- he/she/it had lived
- we had lived
- you had lived
- they had lived
Le verbe live au past perfect continuous
- I had been living
- you had been living
- he/she/it had been living
- we had been living
- you had been living
- they had been living
Le verbe live au future
- I will live
- you will live
- he/she/it will live
- we will live
- you will live
- they will live
Le verbe live au future continuous
- I will be living
- you will be living
- he/she/it will be living
- we will be living
- you will be living
- they will be living
Le verbe live au future perfect
- I will have lived
- you will have lived
- he/she/it will have lived
- we will have lived
- you will have lived
- they will have lived
Le verbe live au future perfect continuous
- I will have been living
- you will have been living
- he/she/it will have been living
- we will have been living
- you will have been living
- they will have been living
Conjugaison du verbe live au conditionnel
Le verbe live au conditional present
- I would live
- you would live
- he/she/it would live
- we would live
- you would live
- they would live
Le verbe live au conditional present continuous
- I would be living
- you would be living
- he/she/it would be living
- we would be living
- you would be living
- they would be living
Le verbe live au conditional perfect
- I would have lived
- you would have lived
- he/she/it would have lived
- we would have lived
- you would have lived
- they would have lived
Le verbe live au conditional perfect continuous
- I would have been living
- you would have been living
- he/she/it would have been living
- we would have been living
- you would have been living
- they would have been living
Les autres formes
L’infinitif de live
- to live
Participe présent de live
- living
Participe passé de live
- lived
L’impératif de live
- live
- let’s live
Définition de live en anglais
Que veut dire le verbe live en anglais ?
Le Cambridge Dictionary donne plusieurs définitions du verbe live.
Penchons-nous sur les principales :
1. To be alive or have life
She lived old enough to play with her great-grandchildren.
→ Elle a vécu suffisamment longtemps pour jouer avec ses arrière-petits-enfants.
2. To have your home somewhere
My neighbours live in a very small flat.
→ Mes voisins habitent dans un très petit appartement.
3. To be kept usually in a particular place
He never sets foot in the kitchen, so he doesn’t know where the saucepans live.
→ Il ne met jamais les pieds dans la cuisine, donc il ne sait pas où sont rangées les casseroles.
4. To spend your life in a particular way
I want to live a life full of adventure.
→ Je veux une vie pleine d’aventures.
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Les phrasal verbs avec live en anglais
Rappel : les phrasal verbs (ou “verbes à particule”) sont des verbes qui, lorsqu’ils sont suivis d’un autre mot (la particule), vont voir leur sens initial complété ou modifié.
Voici les phrasal verbs formés sur le verbe live :
- Live by something → avoir une philosophie de vie
- Live for something or someone → vivre pour quelque chose ou quelqu’un
- Live in → habiter sur place
- Live it up → s’éclater (familier)
- Live off → vivre de quelque chose, subsister grâce à quelque chose
- Live on → perdurer
- Live out → ne pas loger sur place
- Live something down → oublier quelque chose
- Live up to something → être à la hauteur de quelque chose
- Live with someone → partager le même toit que quelqu’un
- Live without → se passer de
Les synonymes de live en anglais
En fonction du contexte, vous pouvez remplacer le verbe to live par l’un des verbes suivants :
- crash → squatter (familier)
- experience → vivre une expérience
- locate → s’installer
- occupy → occuper
- remain → rester
- reside → résider
- settle → s’installer
- survive → survivre
Expressions avec live en anglais
Voici une liste non-exhaustive des expressions idiomatiques avec le verbe ou l’adjectif live :
- a live wire → une pile électrique (pour parler de quelqu’un de très excité)
- go live → être mis en ligne
- to live and breathe → ne vivre que pour quelque chose
- to live and learn → on en apprend tous les jours
- to live and let live → laisser couler (familier)
- to live as husband and wife → vivre en concubinage
- to live for today → vivre l’instant présent
- to live from hand to mouth → avoir du mal à joindre les deux bouts
- to live high on the hog → mener la belle vie
- to live off the fat of the land → vivre grassement
- to live on borrowed time → vivre en sursis
- to live on the edge → vivre dangereusement
En résumé
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