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Top 500noun, feminine

голова́

[ɡəɫɐˈva]head

Frequency rank #257 About 1 in every 2,300 words in Russian film and TV. The top 500 words make up 71.0% of everything said.
голова #257

Meaning

  1. head
  2. mind; brains
  3. loaf

Examples

с головы́ до но́г

from head to foot

с головы́ до пя́т

from head to toe

Related

Forms by frequency

  • го́ловуaccusative, singular#533
  • голове́dative, singular#1,097
  • голова́nominative, singular#1,396
  • го́ловыnominative, plural#1,471
  • голово́йinstrumental, singular#1,906
  • голова́миinstrumental, plural#13,223
  • голо́вgenitive, plural#17,623
  • голова́хprepositional, plural#29,279
  • голова́мdative, plural
  • голово́юinstrumental, singular

Cases

CaseSingularPlural
Nominativeголова́го́ловы
Genitiveголовы́голо́в
Dativeголове́голова́м
Accusativeго́ловуго́ловы
Instrumentalголово́йголова́ми
Prepositionalголове́голова́х

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