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Top 1,000noun, feminine

ба́бушка

[ˈbabʊʂkə]grandmother, grandma, granny

Frequency rank #885 About 1 in every 9,900 words in Russian film and TV. The top 1,000 words make up 77.5% of everything said.
бабушка #885

Meaning

  1. grandmother, grandma, granny
  2. old lady
  3. Gandhi's breakfast, eighty in the lotto game

Examples

расскажи́ э́то свое́й ба́бушке

tell it to Sweeney, tell it to the marines

По́сле обе́да ба́бушка, зимо́й, си́дя у ками́на, ча́сто заду́мчиво молча́ла, когда́ была́ одна́.

After dinner in the winter when she was alone, Granny would sit silently by the fire deep in her own thoughts.

Forms by frequency

  • ба́бушкаnominative, singular#1,507
  • ба́бушкиnominative, plural#4,990
  • ба́бушкойinstrumental, singular#7,640
  • ба́бушкеdative, singular#7,706
  • ба́бушкуaccusative, singular#8,897
  • ба́бушекgenitive, plural
  • ба́бушкамdative, plural
  • ба́бушкоюinstrumental, singular
  • ба́бушкамиinstrumental, plural
  • ба́бушкахprepositional, plural

Cases

CaseSingularPlural
Nominativeба́бушкаба́бушки
Genitiveба́бушкиба́бушек
Dativeба́бушкеба́бушкам
Accusativeба́бушкуба́бушек
Instrumentalба́бушкойба́бушками
Prepositionalба́бушкеба́бушках

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