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Top 500verb, perfective

бро́сить

[ˈbrosʲɪtʲ]to throw

Frequency rank #333 About 1 in every 3,200 words in Russian film and TV. The top 500 words make up 71.0% of everything said.
бросить #333

Meaning

  1. to throw
  2. to send urgently
  3. to abandon, to forsake

Examples

Он бро́сил ка́мушек в во́ду.

He threw a little stone into the water.

Но Иисус сказал ей: дай прежде насытиться детям, ибо нехорошо взять хлеб у детей и бросить псам.

“First let the children eat all they want,” he told her, “for it is not right to take the children’s bread and toss it to the dogs.”

Related

Forms by frequency

  • бро́сьimperative, singular, 2nd person#1,120
  • бро́силmasculine, singular, past#1,492
  • бро́ситьinfinitive#1,607
  • бро́силаfeminine, singular, past#2,340
  • бро́силиplural, past#4,211
  • бро́сьтеimperative, plural, 2nd person#5,009
  • бро́шуsingular, 1st person, future#5,247
  • бро́сишьsingular, 2nd person, future#9,242
  • бро́ситsingular, 3rd person, future#9,692
  • бро́симplural, 1st person, future#14,209
  • бро́сятplural, 3rd person, future#28,100
  • бро́сивpast, gerund#37,442
  • бро́шенныйpast, participle#37,728
  • бро́ситеplural, 2nd person, future#38,686

and 3 more forms

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