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Top 500noun, neuter

лицо́

[lʲɪˈt͡so]face

Frequency rank #313 About 1 in every 3,000 words in Russian film and TV. The top 500 words make up 71.0% of everything said.
лицо #313

Meaning

  1. face
  2. countenance
  3. front

Examples

в лицо́

by sight

в по́те лица́

by the sweat of the brow

Related

Forms by frequency

  • лицо́nominative, singular#593
  • ли́цаnominative, plural#1,366
  • лицо́мinstrumental, singular#1,918
  • лице́prepositional, singular#3,086
  • лицу́dative, singular#3,243
  • ли́цgenitive, plural#9,270
  • ли́цамиinstrumental, plural#25,248
  • ли́цахprepositional, plural#26,785
  • ли́цамdative, plural#29,809

Cases

CaseSingularPlural
Nominativeлицо́ли́ца
Genitiveлица́ли́ц
Dativeлицу́ли́цам
Accusativeлицо́ли́ц
Instrumentalлицо́мли́цами
Prepositionalлице́ли́цах

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