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Top 500verb, imperfective

ждать

[ʐdatʲ]to wait for

Frequency rank #193 About 1 in every 1,700 words in Russian film and TV. The top 500 words make up 71.0% of everything said.
ждать #193

Meaning

  1. to wait for
  2. to wait
  3. to expect, to wait

Examples

ждать мать

to wait for one's mother

ждать по́езда

to wait for a train

Related

Forms by frequency

  • жда́тьinfinitive#661
  • жду́singular, 1st person, present#1,196
  • ждётsingular, 3rd person, present#1,345
  • жда́лmasculine, singular, past#1,758
  • жду́тplural, 3rd person, present#1,767
  • ждала́feminine, singular, past#2,715
  • жди́imperative, singular, 2nd person#2,919
  • жда́лиplural, past#3,141
  • ждёмplural, 1st person, present#3,559
  • ждёшьsingular, 2nd person, present#4,426
  • жди́теimperative, plural, 2nd person#4,518
  • ждётеplural, 2nd person, present#9,235
  • жду́щийpresent, participle
  • жда́вшийpast, participle

and 3 more forms

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