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Top 500noun, feminine

семья́

[sʲɪˈm⁽ʲ⁾ja]family

Frequency rank #218 About 1 in every 2,000 words in Russian film and TV. The top 500 words make up 71.0% of everything said.
семья #218

Meaning

  1. family

Examples

Моя́ семья́ живёт в Каза́ни.

My family lives in Kazan.

Related

Forms by frequency

  • семья́nominative, singular#641
  • се́мьиnominative, plural#737
  • семью́accusative, singular#1,064
  • семье́dative, singular#1,166
  • семьёйinstrumental, singular#2,626
  • семе́йgenitive, plural#7,398
  • се́мьямdative, plural#16,908
  • се́мьямиinstrumental, plural#16,954
  • се́мьяхprepositional, plural#22,518
  • семьёюinstrumental, singular

Cases

CaseSingularPlural
Nominativeсемья́се́мьи
Genitiveсемьи́семе́й
Dativeсемье́се́мьям
Accusativeсемью́се́мьи
Instrumentalсемьёйсе́мьями
Prepositionalсемье́се́мьях

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