Я люблю читать новости о мире и о разных странах.

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Breakdown of Я люблю читать новости о мире и о разных странах.

• читать: to read
• и: and
• страна: the country

Questions & Answers about Я люблю читать новости о мире и о разных странах.

Why do we say люблю читать and not something like люблю читал?

In Russian, when you say you like doing something in general, you almost always use любить + infinitive.

• люблю читать = I like to read / I like reading
• люблю слушать музыку = I like listening to music
• люблю готовить = I like to cook

The form читал is a past-tense verb (I was reading / I read), not an infinitive, so люблю читал is ungrammatical. After люблю / люблю́, you want the infinitive читать.

Why is новости plural, when news in English is uncountable and looks singular?

Russian treats новости as a normal countable plural noun:

• singular: новость – a piece of news, a news item
• plural: новости – news, the news

In everyday Russian, people almost always talk about новости in the plural to mean “the news” in general:

• Я смотрю новости. – I watch the news.
• Свежие новости. – The latest news.

So although English uses an uncountable noun news, Russian uses the regular plural новости.

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