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Top 500noun, feminine

жена́

[ʐɨˈna]wife

Frequency rank #229 About 1 in every 2,100 words in Russian film and TV. The top 500 words make up 71.0% of everything said.
жена #229

Meaning

  1. wife
  2. woman

Examples

Они́ жену́ мне хоте́ли взять из орло́вских для того́, что́бы у нас бы́ло обновле́ние родства́.

She wanted to take a wife for me from the Orel girls, so as to renew the family.

Related

  • жёнушка diminutive

Forms by frequency

  • жена́nominative, singular#482
  • жену́accusative, singular#1,201
  • жено́йinstrumental, singular#1,281
  • жёныnominative, plural#1,383
  • жене́dative, singular#1,924
  • жёнgenitive, plural#4,954
  • жёнамиinstrumental, plural#29,353
  • жёнамdative, plural#45,764
  • жено́юinstrumental, singular
  • жёнахprepositional, plural
  • же́ноvocative, singular

Cases

CaseSingularPlural
Nominativeжена́жёны
Genitiveжены́жён
Dativeжене́жёнам
Accusativeжену́жён
Instrumentalжено́йжёнами
Prepositionalжене́жёнах

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