live or lives

Here is the difference: Life is a noun and means something like 'the state of being alive'. The sound of the vowel 'i' is long. Lives is the plural of 'life'. The sound of the vowel 'i' stays long. Live with a short sound of the vowel 'i' is a verb, 'to live'. This indicates the place where someone's home is or for example that someone is alive ... yalla live news