1000 Most Common Russian Words

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

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Rank	Russian word	English translation	Part of speech
501.	река	river	noun
502.	военный	military	adjective
503.	мера	measure, step	noun
504.	страшный	terrible, frightful	adjective
505.	вполне	quite, fully	adverb
506.	звать	to call	verb
507.	произойти	to happen, occur, take place	verb
508.	вперед	forward	preposition
509.	медленно	slowly	adverb
510.	возле	by, near, close by	preposition
511.	никак	in now way, by no means	adverb
512.	заниматься	to be occupied, engage	verb
513.	действие	action, effect	noun
514.	довольно	enough; rather	adverb
515.	вещь	thing	noun
516.	необходимый	necessary	adjective
517.	ход	move	noun
518.	боль	pain	noun
519.	судьба	fate, fortune, destiny	noun
520.	причина	cause, reason, motive	noun
521.	положить	to lay down, put down, place	verb
522.	едва	hardly, just, barely	adverb
523.	черта	line, boundary; trait	noun
524.	девочка	girl, little girl(See #326)	noun
525.	лёгкий	light, easy	adjective
526.	волос	hair	noun
527.	купить	to buy, purchase	verb
528.	номер	number, size, room, issue	noun
529.	основной	main	adjective
530.	широкий	wide	adjective
531.	умереть	to die	verb
532.	далеко	far, far off	adverb
533.	плохо	badly	adverb
534.	глава	head, chief	noun
535.	красивый	beautiful; masterrussian, dot com	adjective
536.	серый	grey; dull	adjective
537.	пить	to drink	verb
538.	командир	commander, commanding officer	noun
539.	обычно	usually	adverb
540.	партия	party	noun
541.	проблема	problem, issue	noun
542.	страх	fear	noun
543.	проходить	to pass, go;study(See #334)	verb
544.	ясно	clear, clearly	adverb
545.	снять	to take away, take off;photograph	verb
546.	бумага	paper	noun
547.	герой	hero	noun
548.	пара	pair, couple	noun
549.	государство	State	noun
550.	деревня	village, country	noun
551.	речь	speech	noun
552.	начаться	to begin	verb
553.	средство	means, remedy	noun
554.	положение	position, posture, condition, state	noun
555.	связь	tie, bond; connection, relation	noun
556.	скоро	quickly, fast, soon	adverb
557.	небольшой	small, not great	adjective
558.	представлять	to present, introduce, imagine(See #586)	verb
559.	завтра	tomorrow	adverb
560.	объяснить	to explain	verb
561.	пустой	empty, hollow; idle	adjective
562.	произнести	to pronounce, say, utter	verb
563.	человеческий	human	adjective
564.	нравиться	to please, like	verb
565.	однажды	once, one day	adverb
566.	мимо	past, by	preposition
567.	иначе	otherwise, differentlyl	adverb
568.	существовать	to exist, to be	verb
569.	класс	class	noun
570.	удаться	turn out well, succeed, manage	verb
571.	толстый	thick, heavy, fat	adjective
572.	цель	goal, object, target	noun
573.	сквозь	through	preposition
574.	прийтись	to fit, fall; have to	verb
575.	чистый	clean, pure	adjective
576.	знать	to know(See #51)	noun
577.	прежний	former	adjective
578.	профессор	professor	noun
579.	господин	gentleman, Mr.	noun
580.	счастье	happiness, luck	noun
581.	худой	thin, skinny; masterrussian.com	adjective
582.	дух	spirit	noun
583.	план	plan	noun
584.	чужой	somebody else's;strange, foreign	adjective
585.	зал	hall	noun
586.	представить	to presetn, produce, introduce(See #558)	verb
587.	особый	special	adjective
588.	директор	director, manager	noun
589.	бывший	former, ex-	adjective
590.	память	memory	noun
591.	близкий	near, similar; intimate	adjective
592.	сей	this	pronoun
593.	результат	result, outcome	noun
594.	больной	sick	adjective
595.	данный	given, present	adjective
596.	кстати	to the point, at the same time	adverb
597.	назвать	to call, name(See #356)	verb
598.	след	track, footprint	noun
599.	улыбаться	to smile(See #605)	verb
600.	бутылка	bottle	noun

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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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