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Top 1,000adverb

ма́ло

[ˈmaɫə]little, few

Frequency rank #821 About 1 in every 9,000 words in Russian film and TV. The top 1,000 words make up 77.5% of everything said.
мало #821

Meaning

  1. little, few
  2. too little, too few

Examples

Широ́кой э́той сва́дьбе бы́ло ме́ста ма́ло / И не́ба бы́ло ма́ло, и земли́.

For this wide wedding, there was too little space, / And too little sky, and land.

Related

  • ма́ло also: adjective, it is too little, it is insufficient, it is not enough

Forms by frequency

  • ма́ло#829

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