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Top 1,000adjective

це́лый

[ˈt͡sɛɫɨj]whole, entire

Frequency rank #521 About 1 in every 5,400 words in Russian film and TV. The top 1,000 words make up 77.5% of everything said.
целый #521

Meaning

  1. whole, entire
  2. intact, safe
  3. integer

Examples

Я ждал це́лый час.

I waited a whole hour.

Forms by frequency

  • це́лыйnominative, masculine#1,330
  • це́луюaccusative, feminine#2,375
  • це́лаяnominative, feminine#3,695
  • це́лыхgenitive, plural#4,763
  • це́лоеnominative, neuter#5,429
  • це́ломprepositional#5,551
  • це́лымиinstrumental, plural#8,177
  • целmasculine, short form#8,221
  • цела́feminine, short form#10,801
  • це́лыplural, short form#11,042
  • це́лыеnominative, plural#11,714
  • це́лойgenitive, feminine#12,606
  • це́лымdative, plural#12,861
  • це́логоgenitive#14,583

and 3 more forms

Cases

CaseSingularPlural
Nominativeце́лые
Genitiveце́лых
Dativeце́лым
Accusativeце́лых
Instrumentalце́лыми
Prepositionalце́лых

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