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Top 1,000noun, masculine

детекти́в

[dɨtɨkˈtʲif]detective

Frequency rank #593 About 1 in every 6,400 words in Russian film and TV. The top 1,000 words make up 77.5% of everything said.
детектив #593

Meaning

  1. detective
  2. detective story, whodunit

Examples

Детекти́в нашёл ули́ку.

The detective found a clue.

Related

  • детекти́вный adjective

Forms by frequency

  • детекти́вnominative, singular#845
  • детекти́ваgenitive, singular#4,720
  • детекти́выnominative, plural#6,463
  • детекти́вомinstrumental, singular#8,370
  • детекти́вовgenitive, plural#13,710
  • детекти́вуdative, singular#16,949
  • детекти́вамиinstrumental, plural#44,841
  • детекти́вамdative, plural#45,266
  • детекти́веprepositional, singular
  • детекти́вахprepositional, plural

Cases

CaseSingularPlural
Nominativeдетекти́вдетекти́вы
Genitiveдетекти́вадетекти́вов
Dativeдетекти́вудетекти́вам
Accusativeдетекти́вадетекти́вов
Instrumentalдетекти́вомдетекти́вами
Prepositionalдетекти́ведетекти́вах

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