"Твои родители любят тебя."

Translation: Your parents love you.

[Brunobruniii]

Useful when someone is about to jump from a bridge I think

[FaizalZahid]

Gives me smile when reading that sentence...and strength... :)

[Navojka]

TFW one gets 22 upvotes and the other one gets 23 lingots (and no upvotes)

[FaizalZahid]

People are weird! I'll give you one though :)

[Marmne]

Good reminder for every teenager also... <3

[marcio.i]

The context makes it evident that «любят» means love here, but is that the only clue for that? Couldn't you think of it being just a "like" case?

[Shady_arc]

It could not, unless You is a nation that your parents like. If "you", however, means a single person, there is no other interpretation here.

[alkajugl]

How would you say your parents like you?

[KrICEtON]

It can not be literally translated to Russion. Actualy -
to love is любить
to like is нравится.
Your sentancise can be transtated as "Ты нравишься своим родителям" (You are liked by your parents).

(My native language is Russian, so I'm sorry if I make mistakes in English :) )

[alkajugl]

Thank you. That makes sense and is helpful. (And your English there was fine.)

[Ali949053]

Aw sweet but what parents ?

[El-Inc]

Why is "любят" pronounced "loobit"? Shouldn't it be "lyobyat"?

[Smike77]

There is a very short sound 'я'[ya] here. But the sentence sounds natural.

[El-Inc]

I don't follow. How is the word pronounced?

[Smike77]

I’ll try to explain how. Sorry for my English.
This word is pronounced like this ['lyu-byat]

We stress the first syllable "лю" and pronounce it clearly [lyu]. It sounds like the first syllable in "Luminary".

The second syllable "бят" is unstressed and we pronounce it faster.
It sounds like [byat]

But If you pronounce "любят" very quickly like here it will be difficult to understand if it's "любят" or "любит".
But you can always understand it by the sentence. In this sentence "любит" doesn't work.

[Smike77]

https://forvo.com/search/%D0%BB%D1%8E%D0%B1%D1%8F%D1%82/

[El-Inc]

Oh, I see. So it actually is "lyo-byat" but with barely audible "y" consonants. Thank! And nice website.

[El-Inc]

The Duolingo voice is harder to make out, I find.

[Smike77]

Maybe because it's a robot ))

[gcasas0]

Is it твои or своего in the audio?

[Leolelo]

Not my case

[kpiano2]

Thanks, Duo

[scottled1]

So любит can mean like, or it can mean love, except when it doesn't. And just how does a learner ÷guess÷ which is correct? Really confused here.

[chcswt]

I think it was stated in the tips before one lesson that it means love when you're referring to a specific person, otherwise it means like.