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Top 1,000verb, imperfective

пить

[pʲitʲ]to drink

Frequency rank #501 About 1 in every 5,100 words in Russian film and TV. The top 1,000 words make up 77.5% of everything said.
пить #501

Meaning

  1. to drink

Examples

как пи́ть дать (idiom)

for sure, as sure as eggs are eggs

пить го́рькую (idiom)

to drink hard

Related

Forms by frequency

  • пи́тьinfinitive#1,212
  • пе́йimperative, singular, 2nd person#3,630
  • пью́singular, 1st person, present#3,918
  • пи́лmasculine, singular, past#4,011
  • пила́feminine, singular, past#6,862
  • пьётsingular, 3rd person, present#7,800
  • пи́лиplural, past#7,832
  • пьёшьsingular, 2nd person, present#8,608
  • пью́тplural, 3rd person, present#9,587
  • пе́йтеimperative, plural, 2nd person#12,046
  • пьёмplural, 1st person, present#19,175
  • пьётеplural, 2nd person, present#19,387
  • пью́щийpresent, participle
  • пи́вшийpast, participle

and 4 more forms

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