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Top 500noun, feminine

причи́на

[prʲɪˈt͡ɕinə]cause

Frequency rank #380 About 1 in every 3,700 words in Russian film and TV. The top 500 words make up 71.0% of everything said.
причина #380

Meaning

  1. cause
  2. reason

Examples

по како́й-то причи́не

for some reason

Forms by frequency

  • причи́наnominative, singular#967
  • причи́ныnominative, plural#1,774
  • причи́нgenitive, plural#2,204
  • причи́неdative, singular#2,649
  • причи́нойinstrumental, singular#3,407
  • причи́нуaccusative, singular#3,485
  • причи́намdative, plural#5,163
  • причи́нахprepositional, plural#42,512
  • причи́ноюinstrumental, singular
  • причи́намиinstrumental, plural

Cases

CaseSingularPlural
Nominativeпричи́напричи́ны
Genitiveпричи́ныпричи́н
Dativeпричи́непричи́нам
Accusativeпричи́нупричи́ны
Instrumentalпричи́нойпричи́нами
Prepositionalпричи́непричи́нах

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