"наша жизнь"

Translation: our life

[IE99]

Shouldn't we always use the plural: lives? My life, your life, our lives

[Peatsickle]

Not necessarily, though "our lives" works too. "Our life" can refer to the collective experience of a group of people, where "our lives" would more strongly individuate those experiences. "Our lives" can also refer to our literal lives, in the life and death sense, but "our life" would not work there.

[detailaddict]

So would the plural of жизнь be жизны or жизни?

[Kundoo]

"Жизни", because "ь" changes to "и" in plural, to keep the preceding consonant palatalised.

[singzeon]

That's what I thought too. I know it's 'life', but then seeing наша made me write lives instead.

[Hephaestus1999]

“It’s now or never!”!

[FreeMediaKids]

Meets B.J. Blazkowicz. «Моя жизнь!»

Just Google that name if you do not understand the reference.

[Nadiros2]

The audio file for "life" really isn't clear here...

[Psittacosis]

Agreed. Its almost like she is putting another vowel in front of the Ж. In general I often have trouble with the duolingo Russian audio, but this could be due to my untrained ears.

[andrewthemandrew]

I hear жыизнь, both here and on Forvo.com.

[Rock17990]

Мой жизнь проблема (

[yaroslav309960]

Apasih gua kok ga paham ya

[Elbows94]

это памп

[pablopublico]

жизнь (žiznʹ) [ʐɨzʲnʲ] f inan (genitive жи́зни, nominative plural жи́зни, genitive plural жи́зней) "life; practice" Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic жизнь (žiznĭ).