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Top 500verb, imperfective

звони́ть

[zvɐˈnʲitʲ]to call

Frequency rank #319 About 1 in every 3,100 words in Russian film and TV. The top 500 words make up 71.0% of everything said.
звонить #319

Meaning

  1. to call
  2. to cause to ring
  3. to ring

Examples

звони́ть дру́гу

to call a friend

звони́ть домо́й

to call home

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Forms by frequency

  • звони́лmasculine, singular, past#1,183
  • звони́лаfeminine, singular, past#1,960
  • звони́тsingular, 3rd person, present#2,114
  • звони́тьinfinitive#2,220
  • звоню́singular, 1st person, present#2,689
  • звони́imperative, singular, 2nd person#2,822
  • звони́лиplural, past#3,409
  • звони́теplural, 2nd person, present#4,613
  • звоня́тplural, 3rd person, present#6,114
  • звони́шьsingular, 2nd person, present#6,361
  • звони́мplural, 1st person, present#34,987
  • звоня́щийpresent, participle
  • звони́вшийpast, participle
  • звоня́present, gerund

and 3 more forms

Words near #319

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