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Top 500verb, perfective

потеря́ть

[pətʲɪˈrʲætʲ]to lose, to waste

Frequency rank #332 About 1 in every 3,200 words in Russian film and TV. The top 500 words make up 71.0% of everything said.
потерять #332

Meaning

  1. to lose, to waste
  2. to shed

Examples

Я потеря́л ключи́.

I lost my keys.

Related

Forms by frequency

  • потеря́лmasculine, singular, past#909
  • потеря́лаfeminine, singular, past#1,647
  • потеря́лиplural, past#1,661
  • потеря́тьinfinitive#1,833
  • потеря́юsingular, 1st person, future#5,788
  • потеря́ешьsingular, 2nd person, future#7,449
  • потеря́емplural, 1st person, future#7,813
  • потеря́етsingular, 3rd person, future#10,603
  • потеря́етеplural, 2nd person, future#17,686
  • поте́рянныйpast, participle#21,852
  • потеря́вpast, gerund#24,379
  • потеря́ютplural, 3rd person, future#26,878
  • потеря́йimperative, singular, 2nd person#28,162
  • потеря́вшийpast, participle

and 3 more forms

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