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Oct 10, 2010
LL0253 – Mylėti To Love
Hi there, I’m Jack and I’m Gintarė and welcome back to Lithuanian Out Loud where we offer the world the Lithuanian language.
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The Lithuanian government is passing laws in order to gradually do away with the conscription system. By 2013 the government plans to have no conscripts in the Lithuanian army. There are approximately 2,000 conscripts in the Lithuanian armed forces.
today we’ll go over the Lithuanian verb mylėti – to love
you wouldn’t use mylėti in the same way you’d use “to love” in English
in general, only use mylėti for animate objects
you wouldn’t say, I love my car, I love football, or I love this shirt
sometimes, mylėti is used for inanimate objects, but only in a romantic or poetic way
mylėti is a transitive verb so it requires the accusative case or galininkas
nemylėti requires the genitive case - kilmininkas
here are mylėti and nemylėti conjugated in the present tense
to love
mylėti
I love
aš myliu
you love (tu)
tu myli
he loves
jis myli
she loves
ji myli
we love
mes mylime
you love (formal)
jūs mylite
you all love
jūs mylite
they love (mm/mf)
jie myli
they love (ff)
jos myli
to not love
nemylėti
I do not love
aš nemyliu
you do not love (tu)
tu nemyli
he does not love
jis nemyli
she does not love
ji nemyli
we do not love
mes nemylime
you do not love (formal)
jūs nemylite
you all do not love
jūs nemylite
they do not love (mm/mf)
jie nemyli
they do not love (ff)
jos nemyli
here are some examples of mylėti in the infinitive
I’m trying to love Stasys
bandau mylėti Stasį
they know how to love
jie moka mylėti
people can love
žmonės gali mylėti
I can only say, to love is very hard
galiu tik pasakyti, kad mylėti labai sunku
I’m learning to love
aš išmokau mylėti
together we're learning to love again
mes kartu išmoktume mylėti
a man has to love his wife
vyras turi mylėti savo žmoną
I try to love my family
bandau mylėti savo šeimą
(aš)
the sea
jūra
the sun
saulė
the stars
žvaigždės
I love the sea (poetic only)
myliu jūrą
I love the sun (poetic only)
myliu saulę
I love the stars (poetic only)
aš myliu žvaigždes
(tu)
do you love Antanas?
ar myli Antaną?
do you love Eglė?
ar myli Eglę?
do you love your dog?
ar myli savo šunį?
do you love your dogs?
ar myli savo šunis?
do you love the girl?
ar myli mergaitę?
do you love the girls?
ar myli mergaites?
why don’t you love your wife?
kodėl nemyli savo žmonos?
why don’t you love your husband?
kodėl nemyli savo vyro?
why don’t you love your dog?
kodėl nemyli savo šuns?
why don’t you love your dogs?
kodėl nemyli savo šunų?
why don’t you love the girls?
kodėl nemyli mergaičių?
(jis)
Vilius loves the child
Vilius myli vaiką
he loves the children
jis myli vaikus
he doesn’t love the child
jis nemyli vaiko
he doesn’t love the children
jis nemyli vaikų
(ji)
grandfather
senelis
she loves her grandfather
ji myli savo senelį
she loves her grandfathers
ji myli savo senelius
she doesn’t love her grandfather
ji nemyli savo senelio
she doesn’t love her grandfathers
ji nemyli savo senelių
(mes)
grandmother
senelė
we love our child
mes mylime savo vaiką
we love our children
mes mylime savo vaikus
we love Birutė
mylime Birutę
we love our grandmother
mylime savo senelę
we love our grandmothers
mylime savo seneles
we don’t love our grandmother
nemylime savo senelės
we don’t love our grandmothers
nemylime savo senelių
we don’t love Birutė
mes nemylime Birutės
(jūs)
why do you love the dog?
kodėl jūs mylite šunį?
why don’t you love the dog?
kodėl nemylite šuns?
(jie)
they love Lithuania (poetic)
jie myli Lietuvą
(jos)
singer
dainininkas
do the women love their husbands?
ar moterys myli savo vyrus?
the girls love the singer
mergaitės myli dainininką
the women don’t love their husbands
moterys nemyli savo vyrų
the girls don’t love the singer
mergaitės nemyli dainininko
imperatives
love! (tu)
mylėk!
let's love! (mes)
mylėkime!
love! (jūs)
mylėkite!
don't love! (tu)
nemylėk!
let's not love! (mes)
nemylėkime!
don't love! (jūs)
nemylėkite!
Šaunuoliai!! Great! You made it to the end of another episode! Puiku! Excellent!