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Top 500adjective

пе́рвый

[ˈpʲervɨj]first

Frequency rank #153 About 1 in every 1,300 words in Russian film and TV. The top 500 words make up 71.0% of everything said.
первый #153

Meaning

  1. first
  2. chief, main
  3. number one, top

Examples

пе́рвый день неде́ли

the first day of the week

Forms by frequency

  • пе́рвыйnominative, masculine#388
  • пе́рвымdative, plural#1,083
  • пе́рваяnominative, feminine#1,138
  • пе́рвойgenitive, feminine#1,222
  • пе́рвоеnominative, neuter#1,303
  • пе́рвогоgenitive#1,579
  • пе́рвуюaccusative, feminine#1,890
  • пе́рвыеnominative, plural#2,594
  • пе́рвомprepositional#2,625
  • пе́рвыхgenitive, plural#4,272
  • пе́рвымиinstrumental, plural#5,182
  • пе́рвомуdative#8,965
  • пе́рвоюinstrumental, feminine

Cases

CaseSingularPlural
Nominativeпе́рвые
Genitiveпе́рвых
Dativeпе́рвым
Accusativeпе́рвых
Instrumentalпе́рвыми
Prepositionalпе́рвых

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