Я часто ставлю лайк его фото.

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Breakdown of Я часто ставлю лайк его фото.

• часто: often
• его: his
• фото: the photo

Questions & Answers about Я часто ставлю лайк его фото.

Why do we say ставлю лайк instead of having one verb that means “to like (a post)”?

In Russian, the most common way to say “to like (a post/photo)” on social media is the phrase ставить лайк (literally: “to put a like”).

• ставить = to put / to place (imperfective)
• лайк = a like (borrowed from English)

So я ставлю лайк is literally “I am putting a like”, which corresponds to English “I like (it)” in the social media sense.

There are single verbs:

• лайкать – to like (imperfective, colloquial)
• лайкнуть – to like once (perfective, colloquial)

But ставить лайк / ставлю лайк is very common and sounds natural in neutral everyday speech, especially in writing and on the internet.

What tense and aspect is ставлю, and why is that form used here?