1000 Most Common Russian Words

This page provides the frequency list of 1000 most common Russian words and their English translations. Learning most used words early in your Russian study will have a significant impact on your mastery of the Russian language. According to statistical analysis of contemporary Russian texts, knowing the first thousand of most frequent lemmas will enable you to recognize nearly 65% of the Russian word forms.

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Rank	Russian word	English translation	Part of speech
1.	и	and, though	conjunction
2.	в	in, at	preposition
3.	не	not	particle
4.	он	he	pronoun
5.	на	on, it, at, to	preposition
6.	я	I	pronoun
7.	что	what, that, why	сonjunction, pronoun
8.	тот	that	adjective, pronoun
9.	быть	to be	verb
10.	с	with, and, from, of	preposition
11.	а	while, and, but	conjunction
12.	весь	all, everything	pron, noun
13.	это	that, this, it	pronoun
14.	как	how, what, as, like	adverb, conj
15.	она́	she	pronoun
16.	по	on, along, by	preposition
17.	но	but	conjunction, noun
18.	они́	they	pronoun
19.	к	to, for, by	preposition
20.	у	by, with, of	preposition
21.	ты	you, thou	pronoun
22.	из	from, of, in	preposition
23.	мы	we	pronoun
24.	за	behind, over, at, after	preposition
25.	вы	you	pronoun
26.	так	so, thus, then	adverb
27.	же	and, as for, but, same	conj, particle
28.	от	from, of, for	preposition
29.	сказа́ть	to say, to speak	verb
30.	э́тот	this	pronoun
31.	кото́рый	which, who, that	pronoun
32.	мочь	be able	verb
33.	челове́к	man, person	noun
34.	о	of, about, against	preposition
35.	оди́н	one, some, alone	cardinal number, pronoun
36.	ещё	still, yet	adverb
37.	бы	would	particle
38.	тако́й	such, so, some	pronoun
39.	то́лько	only, merely, but	adverb, conj
40.	себя́	myself, himself, herself	pron, particle
41.	своё	one's own, my, our	pronoun, noun
42.	како́й	what, which, how	pronoun
43.	когда́	when, while, as	adverb, conj
44.	уже́	already, by now	adverb
45.	для	for, to	preposition
46.	вот	here, there, this is, that's	particle
47.	кто	who, that, some	pronoun
48.	да	yes, but	conj, particle
49.	говори́ть	to say, to tell, to speak	verb
50.	год	year	noun

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