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Top 500noun, feminine

пра́вда

[ˈpravdə]truth

Frequency rank #101 About 1 in every 810 words in Russian film and TV. The top 500 words make up 71.0% of everything said.
правда #101

Meaning

  1. truth
  2. justice
  3. law, code

Examples

Ты говори́шь пра́вду?

Are you telling the truth?

В «Пра́вде» нет изве́стий, а в «Изве́стиях» нет пра́вды.

In Pravda there is no news, and in Izvestia there is no truth. (a familiar pun)

Related

  • правди́вый adjective
  • пра́вда also: interjection, sure enough, indeed, actually, as a matter of fact, in point of fact
  • пра́вда also: conjunction, though, however, but
  • Пра́вда also: name, Pravda was a leading newspaper of the Soviet Union and an official organ of the Central Committee of the Communist Party between 1912 and 1991. Now defunct.

Forms by frequency

  • пра́вдаnominative, singular#116
  • пра́вдуaccusative, singular#614
  • пра́вдеdative, singular#2,660
  • пра́вдыnominative, plural#3,807
  • пра́вдойinstrumental, singular#4,558
  • пра́вдgenitive, plural
  • пра́вдамdative, plural
  • пра́вдоюinstrumental, singular
  • пра́вдамиinstrumental, plural
  • пра́вдахprepositional, plural

Cases

CaseSingularPlural
Nominativeпра́вдапра́вды
Genitiveпра́вдыпра́вд
Dativeпра́вдепра́вдам
Accusativeпра́вдупра́вды
Instrumentalпра́вдойпра́вдами
Prepositionalпра́вдепра́вдах

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