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Top 500verb, imperfective

спать

[spatʲ]to sleep

Frequency rank #355 About 1 in every 3,400 words in Russian film and TV. The top 500 words make up 71.0% of everything said.
спать #355

Meaning

  1. to sleep
  2. to have sex, to sleep with

Examples

ложи́ться спать

to go to bed

Related

Forms by frequency

  • спа́тьinfinitive#646
  • спи́тsingular, 3rd person, present#1,840
  • спа́лmasculine, singular, past#1,845
  • спала́feminine, singular, past#2,444
  • спи́шьsingular, 2nd person, present#2,653
  • сплю́singular, 1st person, present#3,340
  • спа́лиplural, past#5,252
  • спи́imperative, singular, 2nd person#5,368
  • спя́тplural, 3rd person, present#6,105
  • спи́теplural, 2nd person, present#8,599
  • спи́мplural, 1st person, present#14,475
  • спя́щийpresent, participle#37,431
  • спа́вшийpast, participle
  • спя́present, gerund

and 3 more forms

Words near #355

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