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Top 500verb, perfective

прости́ть

[prɐˈsʲtʲitʲ]to excuse, to forgive, to pardon

Frequency rank #130 About 1 in every 1,000 words in Russian film and TV. The top 500 words make up 71.0% of everything said.
простить #130

Meaning

  1. to excuse, to forgive, to pardon

Examples

Друзья́ по́няли, наско́лько нра́вственно я вы́ше их, и никогда́ не простя́т мне э́того.

Nadezhda Teffi

Related

Forms by frequency

  • прости́imperative, singular, 2nd person#216
  • прости́теplural, 2nd person, future#242
  • прости́тьinfinitive#2,932
  • прощу́singular, 1st person, future#6,798
  • прости́тsingular, 3rd person, future#7,764
  • прости́лmasculine, singular, past#10,355
  • прости́лаfeminine, singular, past#12,035
  • прости́шьsingular, 2nd person, future#13,226
  • простя́тplural, 3rd person, future#29,439
  • прости́лиplural, past#31,570
  • прости́вшийpast, participle
  • прощённыйpast, participle
  • прости́вpast, gerund
  • прости́вшиpast, gerund

and 2 more forms

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