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Top 500pronoun

како́й-то

[kɐˈkoj‿tə]some, a/an

Frequency rank #235 About 1 in every 2,200 words in Russian film and TV. The top 500 words make up 71.0% of everything said.
какой-то #235

Meaning

  1. some, a/an
  2. a kind of, a sort of; something like

Examples

по како́й-то причи́не

for some reason

Вас спра́шивает како́й-то челове́к.

Some/a man (person) is asking for you, there is a man (person) asking for you.

Forms by frequency

  • како́й-тоnominative, masculine#623
  • кака́я-тоnominative, feminine#1,233
  • како́е-тоnominative, neuter#1,308
  • каки́е-тоnominative, plural#1,318
  • каки́м-тоdative, plural#2,614
  • каку́ю-тоaccusative, feminine#3,715
  • како́го-тоgenitive#3,811
  • како́м-тоprepositional#4,541
  • каки́х-тоgenitive, plural#7,566
  • како́му-тоdative#13,868
  • каки́ми-тоinstrumental, plural#20,439
  • како́ю-тоinstrumental, feminine

Cases

CaseSingularPlural
Nominativeкаки́е-то
Genitiveкаки́х-то
Dativeкаки́м-то
Accusativeкаки́х-то
Instrumentalкаки́ми-то
Prepositionalкаки́х-то

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