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Top 500verb, imperfective

обеща́ть

[ɐbʲɪˈɕːætʲ]to promise, to pledge

Frequency rank #410 About 1 in every 4,100 words in Russian film and TV. The top 500 words make up 71.0% of everything said.
обещать #410

Meaning

  1. to promise, to pledge
  2. to promise, to give grounds for expectation

Examples

Обеща́ю, я приду́.

I promise I'll come.

Related

Forms by frequency

  • обеща́юsingular, 1st person, present#838
  • обеща́лmasculine, singular, past#1,670
  • обеща́лаfeminine, singular, past#3,886
  • обеща́лиplural, past#5,115
  • обеща́йimperative, singular, 2nd person#5,769
  • обеща́ешьsingular, 2nd person, present#6,765
  • обеща́тьinfinitive#9,977
  • обеща́етsingular, 3rd person, present#16,065
  • обеща́етеplural, 2nd person, present#23,117
  • обеща́йтеimperative, plural, 2nd person#25,029
  • обеща́ютplural, 3rd person, present#29,767
  • обеща́емplural, 1st person, present#31,181
  • обеща́ющийpresent, participle
  • обеща́вшийpast, participle

and 6 more forms

Words near #410

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