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From Monday to Friday, we publish Russian words for you to learn. Here are the most recent ones:
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Mar 31, 2023
добива́ться
da-bee-vá-tsa
to (try to) get, to obtain, to achieve, to reach; to secure; to strive for; to seek after
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Mar 29, 2023
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Russian words by category
Having started in 2017, today we have 1861 Russian words divided into 62 categories.
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Arts and crafts
22 words -
Basic Russian
80 words -
Birds in Russian
8 words -
Body parts in Russian
39 words -
Business Russian
15 words -
Calling names
25 words -
Car and its parts
12 words -
Character
66 words -
Chores and housework
28 words -
Christmas and New Year
13 words -
Clothes
22 words -
Colors
19 words -
Computers and internet
12 words -
Cooking
20 words -
Cosmos
7 words -
Crime and Punishment
17 words -
Daily actions in Russian
75 words -
Describing people in Russian
20 words -
Directions
11 words -
Easy Russian
45 words -
Eating in Russian
32 words -
Emotions in Russian
79 words -
Epithets
45 words -
Face expressions
6 words -
Family in Russian
20 words -
Food in Russian
29 words -
Furniture
11 words -
Gardening
23 words -
Grooming
13 words -
Hard Russian words
15 words -
Health
32 words -
Hobbies and activities
28 words -
Holidays and celebrations
25 words -
House and apartment
46 words -
Introductory words and questions
10 words -
Love and marriage
44 words -
Math in Russian
26 words -
Money and prosperity
9 words -
Most common Russian verbs
31 words -
Most common Russian words
22 words -
Nature in Russian
27 words -
Physical qualities
36 words -
Places in Russian
10 words -
Random Russian words
132 words -
Relationships
147 words -
Russian expressions
72 words -
Russian slang
13 words -
Shopping in Russian
41 words -
Simple movements
67 words -
Sounds
9 words -
Sport in Russian
31 words -
Studies
35 words -
Symbols of Russia
16 words -
Tastes
12 words -
Things around us
22 words -
Time
30 words -
Tools in Russian
8 words -
Transport
30 words -
Travel
18 words -
Verbs of motion
16 words -
Weather in Russian
24 words -
Work
42 words