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Top 500verb, perfective

прийти́сь

[prʲɪjˈtʲisʲ]to be necessary, to be required [with dative ‘for someone’ and infinitive ‘to do something’]

Frequency rank #240 About 1 in every 2,200 words in Russian film and TV. The top 500 words make up 71.0% of everything said.
прийтись #240

Meaning

  1. to be necessary, to be required [with dative ‘for someone’ and infinitive ‘to do something’]
  2. to fall, to occur
  3. to be [with dative ‘for someone’ and adverb ‘in a certain state’]

Examples

нам пришло́сь уйти́ бы́стро

we had to leave quickly

знай, прия́тель: е́сли я тебе́ э́то скажу́, мне придётся тебя́ уби́ть

listen, pal, if I tell you this, I’ll have to kill you

Related

Forms by frequency

  • придётсяsingular, 3rd person, future#494
  • пришло́сьneuter, singular, past#652
  • прийти́сьinfinitive
  • прише́дшийсяpast, participle
  • прише́дшисьpast, gerund
  • приду́сьsingular, 1st person, future
  • придёшьсяsingular, 2nd person, future
  • придёмсяplural, 1st person, future
  • придётесьplural, 2nd person, future
  • приду́тсяplural, 3rd person, future
  • приди́сьimperative, singular, 2nd person
  • приди́тесьimperative, plural, 2nd person
  • пришёлсяmasculine, singular, past
  • пришли́сьplural, past

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