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Top 500noun, feminine

кни́га

[ˈknʲiɡə]book

Frequency rank #440 About 1 in every 4,400 words in Russian film and TV. The top 500 words make up 71.0% of everything said.
книга #440

Meaning

  1. book

Examples

Он преподнёс ей кни́гу.

He presented a book to her. / He presented her with a book.

Related

Forms by frequency

  • кни́гуaccusative, singular#1,375
  • кни́гиnominative, plural#1,451
  • кни́гаnominative, singular#1,789
  • кни́геdative, singular#3,333
  • кни́гgenitive, plural#4,637
  • кни́гойinstrumental, singular#11,254
  • кни́гахprepositional, plural#13,141
  • кни́гамиinstrumental, plural#21,895
  • кни́гамdative, plural#38,505
  • кни́гоюinstrumental, singular

Cases

CaseSingularPlural
Nominativeкни́гакни́ги
Genitiveкни́гикни́г
Dativeкни́гекни́гам
Accusativeкни́гукни́ги
Instrumentalкни́гойкни́гами
Prepositionalкни́гекни́гах

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