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свой

[svoj]one's own; my, his, her, its, our, your, their

Frequency rank #41 About 1 in every 330 words in Russian film and TV. The top 100 words make up 53.1% of everything said.
свой #41

Meaning

  1. one's own; my, his, her, its, our, your, their
  2. allied, friendly
  3. peculiar

Examples

Он лю́бит свою́ рабо́ту.

He loves his job.

Я курю́ свою́ сига́ру.

I’m smoking my cigar.

Forms by frequency

  • свою́accusative, feminine#177
  • свое́йgenitive, feminine#238
  • свои́nominative, plural#263
  • свойnominative, masculine#287
  • своего́genitive#347
  • свои́хgenitive, plural#408
  • свои́мdative, plural#476
  • своёnominative, neuter#587
  • свои́миinstrumental, plural#852
  • своёмprepositional#1,112
  • своему́dative#1,150
  • своя́nominative, feminine#3,149
  • свое́юinstrumental, feminine

Cases

CaseSingularPlural
Nominativeсвои́
Genitiveсвои́х
Dativeсвои́м
Accusativeсвои́х
Instrumentalсвои́ми
Prepositionalсвои́х

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