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Top 500verb, perfective

попа́сть

[pɐˈpasʲtʲ]to hit

Frequency rank #397 About 1 in every 3,900 words in Russian film and TV. The top 500 words make up 71.0% of everything said.
попасть #397

Meaning

  1. to hit
  2. to get, to come, to fall, to find oneself, to hit
  3. The impersonal past with an interrogative, location or time adverb indicates something occurring at random.

Examples

не попа́сть в цель

to miss (one's aim)

попа́сть кому́-либо в ру́ки

to fall into someone's hands

Related

Forms by frequency

  • попа́стьinfinitive#1,258
  • попа́лmasculine, singular, past#1,422
  • попа́лаfeminine, singular, past#2,479
  • попа́лиplural, past#2,638
  • попа́лоneuter, singular, past#5,627
  • попадётsingular, 3rd person, future#8,276
  • попаду́singular, 1st person, future#8,593
  • попадёшьsingular, 2nd person, future#12,437
  • попадёмplural, 1st person, future#15,027
  • попаду́тplural, 3rd person, future#19,045
  • попадётеplural, 2nd person, future#27,502
  • попа́вpast, gerund#35,819
  • попади́imperative, singular, 2nd person#42,368
  • попа́вшийpast, participle

and 2 more forms

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