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бе́лый

[ˈbʲeɫəj]white

Frequency rank #612 About 1 in every 6,600 words in Russian film and TV. The top 1,000 words make up 77.5% of everything said.
белый #612

Meaning

  1. white
  2. white skinned
  3. light, fair

Examples

Она́ купи́ла бе́лое пла́тье.

She bought a white dress.

Related

  • бе́ленький diminutive
  • бе́лый also: noun, a White; a member of the White Guard; an anticommunist

Forms by frequency

  • бе́лыйnominative, masculine#1,778
  • бе́логоgenitive#3,920
  • бе́лыеnominative, plural#4,036
  • бе́лыхgenitive, plural#4,961
  • бе́лаяnominative, feminine#5,266
  • бе́ломprepositional#5,752
  • бе́лойgenitive, feminine#7,538
  • бе́лоеnominative, neuter#7,678
  • бе́лымdative, plural#7,683
  • бе́луюaccusative, feminine#13,121
  • бела́feminine, short form#14,241
  • бе́лымиinstrumental, plural#15,176
  • бе́ломуdative#21,581
  • бе́лоюinstrumental, feminine

and 3 more forms

Cases

CaseSingularPlural
Nominativeбе́лые
Genitiveбе́лых
Dativeбе́лым
Accusativeбе́лых
Instrumentalбе́лыми
Prepositionalбе́лых

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