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Top 500noun, neuter

и́мя

[ˈimʲə]personal name, first name, Christian name, given name (for inanimate things, see назва́ние)

Frequency rank #204 About 1 in every 1,800 words in Russian film and TV. The top 500 words make up 71.0% of everything said.
имя #204

Meaning

  1. personal name, first name, Christian name, given name (for inanimate things, see назва́ние)
  2. noun
  3. renown, reputation

Examples

и́мя и о́тчество

first name and patronymic

Заво́д и́мени Ста́лина

Stalin Automobile Plant

Related

Forms by frequency

  • и́мяnominative, singular#299
  • и́мениgenitive, singular#821
  • имена́nominative, plural#1,869
  • и́менемinstrumental, singular#2,745
  • имёнgenitive, plural#8,340
  • имена́миinstrumental, plural#12,285
  • имена́мdative, plural#43,155
  • имена́хprepositional, plural

Cases

CaseSingularPlural
Nominativeи́мяимена́
Genitiveи́мениимён
Dativeи́мениимена́м
Accusativeи́мяимена́
Instrumentalи́менемимена́ми
Prepositionalи́мениимена́х

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