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Top 1,000noun, masculine

язы́к

[(j)ɪˈzɨk]tongue

Frequency rank #847 About 1 in every 9,400 words in Russian film and TV. The top 1,000 words make up 77.5% of everything said.
язык #847

Meaning

  1. tongue
  2. language
  3. prisoner for interrogation, canary, informer

Examples

на ко́нчике языка́

on the tip of (one's) tongue

У него́ язы́к без косте́й.

He's a big mouth / blabbermouth / waffler / rambler / talks too much. (Used to describe someone who talks a load of nonsense.)

Related

Forms by frequency

  • язы́кnominative, singular#1,571
  • языке́prepositional, singular#4,939
  • языко́мinstrumental, singular#5,470
  • языка́genitive, singular#7,809
  • языки́nominative, plural#16,517
  • языка́хprepositional, plural#17,530
  • языко́вgenitive, plural#25,360
  • языку́dative, singular#28,584
  • языка́миinstrumental, plural#36,564
  • языка́мdative, plural

Cases

CaseSingularPlural
Nominativeязы́кязыки́
Genitiveязыка́языко́в
Dativeязыку́языка́м
Accusativeязыка́языко́в
Instrumentalязыко́мязыка́ми
Prepositionalязыке́языка́х

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