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Top 500verb, imperfective

рабо́тать

[rɐˈbotətʲ]to work

Frequency rank #136 About 1 in every 1,100 words in Russian film and TV. The top 500 words make up 71.0% of everything said.
работать #136

Meaning

  1. to work
  2. to function
  3. to labor, to toil

Examples

Где ты рабо́таешь?

Where do you work?

Related

Forms by frequency

  • рабо́татьinfinitive#438
  • рабо́таетsingular, 3rd person, present#475
  • рабо́таюsingular, 1st person, present#918
  • рабо́талmasculine, singular, past#972
  • рабо́таешьsingular, 2nd person, present#1,621
  • рабо́талаfeminine, singular, past#1,775
  • рабо́таютplural, 3rd person, present#1,880
  • рабо́талиplural, past#2,099
  • рабо́таемplural, 1st person, present#2,322
  • рабо́таетеplural, 2nd person, present#2,872
  • рабо́тайimperative, singular, 2nd person#7,519
  • рабо́таяpresent, gerund#9,503
  • рабо́талоneuter, singular, past#16,817
  • рабо́тайтеimperative, plural, 2nd person#17,238

and 4 more forms

Words near #136

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