To love; to make love etc

Elena Gapova e.gapova at WORLDNET.ATT.NET
Wed Mar 23 02:57:54 UTC 2005


Mayakovsky also coined "vylyubit'.

As for "lyubit'sya", my Belarusian babushka (who lived in Vitebskaya oblast', i.e. closer to Russia) used "zlyubitsya": яны (они) злюбіліся, i.e. became invoved with each other, began to see each other to make love (which apparently was discovered by someone in the village, in the context of how she used the phrase).

e.g.

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