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Top 500verb, imperfective

сиде́ть

[sʲɪˈdʲetʲ]to sit

Frequency rank #369 About 1 in every 3,500 words in Russian film and TV. The top 500 words make up 71.0% of everything said.
сидеть #369

Meaning

  1. to sit
  2. to be imprisoned, to do time
  3. to stay at home, to look after

Examples

сиде́ть до́ма

to stay home

сиде́ть в Интерне́те

to stay on the Internet

Related

Forms by frequency

  • сиде́тьinfinitive#1,056
  • сиди́тsingular, 3rd person, present#2,195
  • сиде́лmasculine, singular, past#2,363
  • сижу́singular, 1st person, present#4,015
  • сиди́imperative, singular, 2nd person#4,261
  • сиди́шьsingular, 2nd person, present#4,351
  • сиде́лаfeminine, singular, past#4,754
  • сиде́лиplural, past#5,456
  • сиди́теplural, 2nd person, present#6,240
  • сидя́тplural, 3rd person, present#6,480
  • сиди́мplural, 1st person, present#8,299
  • си́дяpresent, gerund#8,323
  • сидя́щийpresent, participle#37,616
  • сиде́вшийpast, participle

and 4 more forms

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