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Top 500verb, imperfective

слы́шать

[ˈsɫɨʂətʲ]to hear

Frequency rank #152 About 1 in every 1,300 words in Russian film and TV. The top 500 words make up 71.0% of everything said.
слышать #152

Meaning

  1. to hear
  2. to smell, to feel

Examples

Я слы́шу како́й-то стра́нный за́пах.

I smell something strange./I feel some strange smell.

Related

Forms by frequency

  • слы́шалmasculine, singular, past#385
  • слы́шалаfeminine, singular, past#714
  • слы́шишьsingular, 2nd person, present#962
  • слы́шалиplural, past#1,034
  • слы́шуsingular, 1st person, present#1,169
  • слы́шатьinfinitive#1,209
  • слы́шитеplural, 2nd person, present#2,159
  • слы́шитsingular, 3rd person, present#4,595
  • слы́шимplural, 1st person, present#12,400
  • слы́шатplural, 3rd person, present#12,833
  • слы́шащийpresent, participle
  • слы́шавшийpast, participle
  • слы́шимыйpresent, participle
  • слы́шанныйpast, participle

and 4 more forms

Words near #152

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