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[dezelina.livejournal.com]

How do you say, "I would love to" in Russian?
Would it be <<я хотела бы лыбить?>>

I am pretty sure that I am wrong..lol

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[zelenyi-rassvet.livejournal.com]

"Я очень бы хотела"

[zelenyi-rassvet.livejournal.com]

а ну или "С удовольствием"))

[abriter.livejournal.com]

еще "мне бы очень хотелось" можно

[wolk-off.livejournal.com]

Thank you for your contribution. However, I would love to remind that the working language of this community is English. It is OK to post or to comment in Russian, but you are expected to provide Englsih translation as well.

[abriter.livejournal.com]

* "мне бы очень хотелось" is also possible

[l-i-b.livejournal.com]

ы is anywhere

[apollotiger.livejournal.com]

like ь, it likes to hide places and pounce on you when you aren’t expecting it.

[wolk-off.livejournal.com]

Word-by-word translation never works, especially with the languages that belong to different "families" (Germanic and Slavic, in this case.) So, avoid direct translation of set expressions, try either to memorize their foreign counterparts, or -- which is indeed harder, but works better -- to dig the logic of the foreign language.
In this case, it's either "я хотела бы... [сделать что-то]", or "я очень хотела бы...[сделать что-то]", or, as it's already recommended above, you can use an impersonal form: "мне [очень] хотелось бы...[сделать что-то]."

[alex-mashin.livejournal.com]

Groups. The family is the same: Indo-European.

[wolk-off.livejournal.com]

Right. Mea culpa.

[wolk-off.livejournal.com]

And yes, mind your Cyrillics - Ы and Ю are different letters :) The verb лыбить (more oftenly, in a reflexive form: лыбиться) also exists -- it is a very colloquial, almost profane, word for "to grin" :)

[aciel.livejournal.com]

Profane? Like 'smirk' in that it hints at negativity, or actually rude to say?

[wolk-off.livejournal.com]

Both, though the level of rudeness is bearable -- it's a redneckish, "bad village boy's" word :)

[dezelina.livejournal.com]

Thanks :)

[crimeanelf.livejournal.com]

I would *like* to read this book is мне бы хотелось прочитать эту книгу.

Now, I would *love* to read this book is я бы с удовольствием прочитала эту книгу.

[oryx_and_crake]

It depends on the context (like everything else).

I would love to read this book. Я бы очень хотела (or мне бы очень хотелось) прочитать эту книгу.

- Do you want to go and see this movie?
- I'd love to.
- Хотите пойти посмотреть этот фильм?
- Да, с удовольствием. (or Да, очень хочу.)