1000 Most Common Russian Words

This page continues the frequency list for 1000 most common Russian words and their English translations.

Top Russian words: 401-500 7 of 12 | < Prev Next >

Rank	Russian word	English translation	Part of speech
401.	чувство	feeling	noun
402.	молчать	to keep silence	verb
403.	рассказывать	to tell, narrate, (See #392)	verb
404.	отвечать	to answer, reply, (See #190)	verb
405.	становиться	to stand; to become	verb
406.	остановиться	to stop	verb
407.	берег	bank, shore, coast	noun
408.	семья	family	noun
409.	искать	to search	verb
410.	генерал	general	noun
411.	момент	moment, instant	noun
412.	десять	ten	cardinal number
413.	начать	to begin(See #309)	verb
414.	следующий	next, following	adjective
415.	личный	personal	adjective
416.	труд	labour, work	noun
417.	верить	to believe; masterrussian, dot com	verb
418.	группа	group	noun
419.	немного	a little	adverb
420.	впрочем	however, though	conjunction
421.	видно	evidently, obviously	misc
422.	являться	to appear	verb
423.	муж	husband	noun
424.	разве	really?, perhaps	particle
425.	движение	movement	noun
426.	порядок	order	noun
427.	ответ	answer, reply	noun
428.	тихо	quietly, softly, slowly	adverb
429.	знакомый	familiar, acquainted	adjective
430.	газета	newspaper	noun
431.	помощь	help	noun
432.	сильный	strong, powerful	adjective
433.	скорый	quick, fast	adjective
434.	собака	dog	noun
435.	дерево	tree	noun
436.	снег	snow	noun
437.	сон	dream	noun
438.	смысл	sense, meaning, purpose	noun
439.	смочь	to be able	verb
440.	против	against, opposite, contrary to	preposition
441.	бежать	to run, hurry	verb
442.	двор	yard, court	noun
443.	форма	form, shape, uniform	noun
444.	простой	simple, easy, plain	adjective
445.	приехать	to arrive, come	verb
446.	иной	different, other	pronoun
447.	кричать	to cry, shout(See #656)	verb
448.	возможность	possibility, opportunity, chance	noun
449.	общество	society	noun
450.	зелёный	green	adjective
451.	грудь	breast, chest	noun
452.	угол	corner, angle	noun
453.	открыть	to open	verb
454.	происходить	to happen, occur, take place	verb
455.	ладно	in harmony, well, all right	adverb
456.	чёрный	black (as in "she wears black")(See #333)	noun
457.	век	century, age	noun
458.	карман	pocket	noun
459.	ехать	to go, ride, drive, travel	verb of motion
460.	немец	German	noun
461.	наверное	probably, most likely(See #972)	adverb
462.	губа	lip	noun
463.	дядя	uncle	noun
464.	приходить	to come, arrive(See #253)	verb
465.	часто	often	adverb
466.	домой	home(as in "she came home")	adverb
467.	огонь	fire	noun
468.	писатель	writer	noun
469.	армия	army	noun
470.	состояние	state, condition; fortune	noun
471.	зуб	tooth	noun
472.	очередь	line, queue, turn	noun
473.	кой	which (old-fashioned, literary); mostly found in set expressions: ни в ко́ем слу́чае, ни ко́им о́бразом, в кои ве́ки, на кой чёрт?	pronoun
474.	подняться	to rise, climb	verb
475.	камень	stone	noun
476.	гость	guest	noun
477.	показаться	to appear, come in sight	verb
478.	ветер	wind	noun
479.	собираться	to gather together, assemble; intend(See #981)	verb
480.	попасть	to hit; to find oneself	verb
481.	принять	to take, admit, accept(See #643)	verb
482.	сначала	at first, from the beginning	adverb
483.	либо	or	conjunction
484.	поехать	to depart, set off	verb
485.	услышать	to hear	verb
486.	уметь	to be able, know, can	verb
487.	случиться	to happen	verb
488.	странный	strange	adjective
489.	единственный	only, sole	adjective
490.	рота	company (military)	noun
491.	закон	law, act, statute	noun
492.	короткий	short	adjective
493.	море	sea	noun
494.	добрый	kind	adjective
495.	тёмный	dark	adjective
496.	гора	mountain, hill	noun
497.	врач	physician, doctor	noun
498.	край	border, edge; land, country	noun
499.	стараться	to try, endeavour	verb
500.	лучший	better, best	adjective

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Note: The frequency list is adapted from the frequency dictionary for the Russian language by Serge Sharoff.

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