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Top 500verb, perfective

взять

[vzʲætʲ]to take

Frequency rank #126 About 1 in every 1,000 words in Russian film and TV. The top 500 words make up 71.0% of everything said.
взять #126

Meaning

  1. to take
  2. to choose a direction, to turn

Examples

И, услышав, ближние Его пошли взять Его, ибо говорили, что Он вышел из себя.

When his relatives heard of this they set out to seize him, for they said, “He is out of his mind.”

взять шту́рмом что́-либо

to take something by storm

Related

  • брать<q:suppletive> aspect partner

Forms by frequency

  • возьми́imperative, singular, 2nd person#358
  • взя́тьinfinitive#490
  • взя́лmasculine, singular, past#693
  • возьму́singular, 1st person, future#1,033
  • взя́лиplural, past#1,210
  • взяла́feminine, singular, past#1,369
  • возьми́теimperative, plural, 2nd person#1,797
  • возьмёмplural, 1st person, future#3,395
  • возьмёшьsingular, 2nd person, future#6,399
  • возьмётsingular, 3rd person, future#7,818
  • возьму́тplural, 3rd person, future#9,010
  • возьмётеplural, 2nd person, future#13,991
  • взя́вpast, gerund#24,390
  • взя́вшийpast, participle

and 3 more forms

Words near #126

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