гуглить (guglit)

What it means

1. 1.

   To google. Completely naturalised: it takes ordinary prefixes (загуглить for a single look-up, погуглить for a browse) and nobody registers it as foreign any more.

2. 2.

   The template for a whole class of verbs — лайкнуть, репостить, забанить, скинуть в личку — by which Russian swallows English technology vocabulary whole and conjugates it.

Examples with translations

• Загугли, там за секунду находится.

  Just google it, it takes a second.

• Я весь вечер гуглил, как это чинить.

  I spent all evening googling how to fix it.

Where it comes from

Google plus the infinitive suffix -ить. The prefix system does the rest: Russian aspect pairs form automatically around any new stem, which is why borrowed verbs integrate faster than borrowed nouns.

First attested: 2000s

Other forms

Romanised as:

guglit