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Top 1,000verb, imperfective

врать

[vratʲ]to lie

Frequency rank #738 About 1 in every 8,000 words in Russian film and TV. The top 1,000 words make up 77.5% of everything said.
врать #738

Meaning

  1. to lie
  2. to make a mistake
  3. to be inaccurate

Examples

Не ври мне!

Don't lie to me!

Related

Forms by frequency

  • вра́тьinfinitive#2,774
  • вра́лmasculine, singular, past#6,160
  • врёшьsingular, 2nd person, present#6,195
  • врёмplural, 1st person, present#6,239
  • вру́singular, 1st person, present#7,123
  • врётsingular, 3rd person, present#7,705
  • врала́feminine, singular, past#10,807
  • ври́imperative, singular, 2nd person#11,044
  • вру́тplural, 3rd person, present#11,195
  • вра́лиplural, past#26,730
  • врётеplural, 2nd person, present#31,838
  • вру́щийpresent, participle
  • вра́вшийpast, participle
  • вра́вpast, gerund

and 3 more forms

Words near #738

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