100 Most Common Russian Words EVERY BEGINNER MUST KNOW!

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The first word or the first particle for today is И.

And И means and.

Whenever you say this and that, we use И for that reason.

So И means and in Russian.

Next up is В. В means in.

The main meaning of it is in something.

So we're talking about location, okay?

For example, I can give you a sentence.

I am in the house.

Like I'm at the house, I'm inside the house.

But also V can also be used when talking about direction.

When we are directed somewhere.

I can say I am going to the store.

I am directed to the store.

So V can have two meanings of in and toward.

Next is не.

Не.

And не means not.

It's typically used with verbs whenever we want to say that I didn't do something or I'm not going to do something.

Or it can also be used with adjectives whenever we're talking about he is not smart, he is not beautiful, he is not tall, he is not this, he is not that.

Okay?

So не is used to say not.

Do not confuse it with no as an answer.

We're going to talk about no

I think pretty soon, I'll see if it's on the list.

Next is on, and on means he.

ON, just a very basic personal pronoun for HE.

Then we have НА.

НА means ON.

Typically, again, it's going to have two meanings, just like IN, just like V head.

НА is going to be on top of something, so ON.

Or НА can also be whenever you attend some event.

For example, I can say Я ИДУ НА КОНЦЕРТ.

I'm going to a concert.

I'm going to attend a concert.

Next we have Я, and Я means I, Я, again a personal pronoun, nothing more to explain there.

Then we have ЧТО, now ЧТО can have two meanings, it can be a question, like what, ЧТО is a question, what,

Maybe like what do you want?

Что is used in that?

Or if we have a complex sentence.

For example I can say Я знаю, что ты не приедешь.

I know that you won't come.

So что in this sentence means that.

Whenever it's a complex sentence Я знаю is one part of a sentence, что ты не приедешь is the second part and we connect the two with что.

Next we have ТОТ and ТОТ means that.

It's again a pronoun but it's going to mean like that person or that thing.

You point at something that.

I can say ТОТ человек меня ударил.

That person hit me.

Okay?

ТОТ.

So you're pointing at somebody and say that.

uh then we have быть and быть is to be i think быть is not used in infinitive a lot it's used in future tense and it becomes буду okay буду it's a conjugation for for future uh for future sentences or it can be был which means was быть in present tense is an infinitive it's not used too frequently it's typically used in future and the past

And then we have S, which is a preposition.

S means width.

S can be...

Я ем с другом.

I'm eating with a friend.

Maybe you're at a restaurant and you're eating with him.

So he's being your company.

С can also have a meaning of from.

Whenever we're coming from something.

I can say Я пришел с учебы.

I came from studies.

Like I came from a university or something.

Okay, so you came from that place, from that thing that you were doing.

And С can take on the form of СО.

And СО is used whenever the next word starts with an С and has two consonants.

Next is A.

A is going to be very similar to AND, but A is somewhere in the middle of AND and BUT.

It's not a contradiction like BUT, but it's not, you're not comparing two similar things like AND.

It's mostly like

did this while he did that it's mostly like while it has a meaning of while is the closest meaning to while in Russian I can say я готовил а он убирался I was cooking and he was cleaning or I was cooking while he was cleaning okay so that's а for you next is весь and весь means all or in its entirety the whole thing

Я построил весь дом сам.

I built the whole house myself.

So весь in this sentence means the whole or all of it, all right?

Next is ЭТО and ЭТО means that, okay?

Or this is, for example, I can say ЭТО ручка.

This is a pen.

Whenever you want to point at something or introduce something we use ЭТО for that.

A very common word as you can probably tell.

Next is КАК.

как is used in typically two meanings whenever we want to compare two things как is used like like okay you are like your father как will be used for that or как can be used in a sentence and как in the same or sorry in a question and как in a question means how как ты это сделал how did you do this next is она and она is another personal pronoun which means she not much to explain there easy for me

Next is poor poor means on the surface off or along Think of it is I am walking on

I'm walking on the street, I'm walking along the street, all right?

So it's mostly like I'm... mostly по is going to be on the surface of typically, okay?

По.

And mostly we're talking about direction again.

Next is но.

Но means but.

We talked about and, which was и, we talked about while, which was а, and now we're talking about but, which is но.

No, again, it's used to connect two parts of a sentence that this you did this but he didn't do that for example, right?

Next we have a knee another personal pronoun for they I need Then we have cut now cut is a very interesting one cut means typically two words and

I'm going toward him.

So means I'm going in his direction or I'm going toward him.

So means toward.

There's also other meanings out there but they are less common.

We then have У. У is very common in the phrase У меня есть, which means I have.

But У in its kind of a standalone preposition means near something.

I can say Я у школы.

I'm near the school.

Okay, so У means I'm near it, I'm somewhere nearby.

Then we have Ты, which is You.

Again, another personal pronoun, not much to explain there.

Then we have Из.

Is means from.

Я вышел из магазина.

I came out the store.

I came from the store, I came out of it, okay?

Is.

Then we have мы, which is we, which is we, again a personal pronoun.

Then we have за.

За means behind.

Я за углом.

I'm behind the corner or I'm around the corner.

За.

as i can also be used whenever we again kind of have has a meaning of behind to be behind somebody or behind a team for example i can say i am cheering for russia like i am i'm cheering for the russian team i'm behind the russian team i stand behind the russian team kind of but it's mostly like used to say i'm cheering for somebody

then we have V V is you and it can be you plural when it comes to multiple people or it can be a singular you whenever we're talking about we're talking to a person of respect V in Russian we separate between the two in Russian we refer to people of respect formally as V if it's a professor or a teacher or a stranger on the street or an elder we refer to them as V next we have TAK

Так is used a lot and it's misused a lot as well.

Так means so in a sentence of Я делаю это так.

I am doing it this way.

So так and this meaning means this way.

But так can also be something like

all right so now we're gonna do so it's more like a a thing that we say to move to the next point tak uh it's typically um whenever we're doing something every day like everyday things and we turn a person okay now you do something else so tak is used for that

And then we have Ж. Ж is a very common one, but the meaning of it is very, very strange.

And I recommend you guys check out this video that we made on Ж with all of its meanings.

It's an old, old video, but all but gold.

But it's a great one with a lot of great content.

I'm not going to even waste my breath right now.

It's a very complicated particle.

Just seem to check out that video right there.

Then we have ОТ.

От is another preposition that means from.

Okay.

Я отошел от дома.

I stepped away from the house.

So it's more like away or from, okay?

Then one of the few verbs that we have on the list is сказать.

And сказать means to say, to say something.

Сказать.

Then we have этот, do you remember we had тот, which means that person, этот means this person.

Okay, тот is typically, okay, that is you pointing at something else further away typically, but этот is going to be this, which is somewhere nearby.

I can say у меня есть этот телефон.

I have this phone.

Alright, then we have КОТОРЫЙ.

КОТОРЫЙ means which.

КОТОРЫЙ, it can be a question of like which table do you want.

КОТОРЫЙ, and that one can be a question.

Or it can also be a conjunction when we connect two parts of a sentence.

For example, I can say

I need a phone that can call.

Then we have мочь.

Мочь is an infinitive for to be able or to like or can.

I can't do something, I cannot do something else.

Мочь is used for that.

Then we have, oh one of the first nouns in this list is человек.

And ЧЕЛОВЕК means a human.

Then we have О, and О means about.

Whenever we talk about something, whenever a movie is about something else, we use О for that.

Then we have ОДИН, and ОДИН can be a numeral, or it can be to say alone.

I can say Я ПРИШЕЛ ОДИН.

I came alone, so by myself.

So ОДИН can be called to be used for by myself, or ОДИН is also one, just a letter or just a numeral one.

Alright?

Then we have ЕЩЁ.

ЕЩЁ means also or more or things like that.

ЕЩЁ means one more thing, for example.

Next up is БЫ and БЫ is would.

I would do this, I would do that, I wouldn't do this.

So БЫ is used for those kinds of sentences when we're talking about imaginary things or things that we could have done or should have done.

Alright, next is ТАКОЙ and ТАКОЙ means this type.

I can say МЕНЕ НЕ НАРАВИТСЯ ТАКАЯ МАШИНА.

I don't like this type of a car.

Maybe it's a sedan and you like maybe a jeep or something, right?

So we use ТАКОЙ to say this type.

Okay, next we have ТОЛЬКО and ТОЛЬКО means only.

Только is used to say I'm only here for a few weeks.

Okay, so только is used for that.

And then we have себя and себя means myself.

And in fact себя I think we need to make a separate video on these kinds of words.

Себя is going to be a very unique word.

Себя means

myself or more of self because it's not just myself, it can be himself, it can be herself, it can be themselves depending on the subject of a sentence, but себя typically means myself.

I can say я себя уважаю, I respect myself.

Another one is свой, okay свой means

his own or her own again is going to depend on who the subject is it's one of those words that change the meaning depending on the subject of a sentence but soy means his own or her own or their own and um yeah it's it can have multiple multiple meanings i suggest you guys look that up and probably there are videos on youtube about it but it's a very complicated kind of

subject or concept that I think I'm not gonna spend the time right now because it's gonna be, you know, a long long video if I explain every single word in detail.

Then we have какой, which is like which type or which one.

I can say какой телефон тебе нужен?

Which type of a phone do you need?

Alright?

Then we have когда.

Когда is a question word that we ask when.

Okay?

Когда ты приедешь?

When will you come?

Когда?

Then we have УЖЕ and УЖЕ means already.

I'm already here.

УЖЕ is used for that.

And then we have ДЛЯ.

ДЛЯ is used to say for, okay, for something.

I can say Я купил торт для тебя.

I bought a cake for you.

ДЛЯ is used whenever we say FOR whenever we do something for somebody else or we buy something for somebody else with the intent to give it to somebody or do something for somebody, alright?

Then we have ВОТ and ВОТ is a very interesting particle because ВОТ is used, say, here.

here it is, вот он, вот он пришел, here he came or here he comes, okay, вот is used to say here, typically it's accompanied with some gesture, here, you know, then we have кто, and кто means who, all right, кто means who, it's a question word that we ask who's gonna come, кто is used for that, and then we have да, and да means yes, okay, very very basic kind of word да,

But also, да has this kind of like secret meaning of but.

How can it be that?

I don't know.

Like it means yes, but also but.

And it can be an example like this.

He came, but without a gift.

Okay, so да is used for that as well.

It has kind of like a secret meaning.

Next we have говорить, and говорить is another verb that means to talk.

We first had to say, now it is to talk, говорить.

And then we have год, which is a year.

Now we're getting into more juicier words and less of particles and prepositions.

We have знать which is to know.

So знать is to know.

Then we have мой.

Мой means mine when something is just talking about your possessions.

Then we have до.

До means until or to.

I can say я дошел до дома.

Walked to home or walked like until I reached the home.

Okay, so don't means before or until and

Then we have или.

Или means or.

One or the other.

Или is used for that.

Then we have если.

Если is used for conditional sentences and it means if.

Если ты придешь, то я буду рад.

If you will come, I'll be happy.

Then we have время.

And время is time.

Время.

Then we have Ruka.

Ruka, which is a hand or an arm.

Funny fact, in Russian, hand and arm all is, you know, talked about by the word of Ruka.

So this whole thing is all Ruka.

I can talk about my hand as Ruka or my arm as Ruka.

In English, of course, we have to separate hand from arm.

Then we have нет.

Now нет means no, as an answer нет, but also нет can be used to say that there's nothing there, meaning like I don't have something.

I can say у меня нет воды, I don't have water, for example.

So нет is used also for that.

Then we have самый.

Самый means the most, the most beautiful, the most smart, I guess the smartest.

Самый is used for that, for that superlative form.

Then we have НИ.

НИ is not to be confused with НЕ.

НИ is used to say neither this nor that.

I can say У меня не было ни телефона, ни компьютера.

I didn't have a phone.

I didn't have a computer, neither did I have a phone.

Kind of like that, right?

So, ни is just to say neither or.

Or I had neither computer or phone.

I guess like that.

Then we have стать and стать means to become.

To become somebody, стать.

Then we have большой.

Большой means big and it's an adjective.

Большой.

Then we have даже and даже means even.

Даже он приехал.

Even he came.

Даже.

Then we have другой, going pretty fast with it, right?

Другой.

Другой means different or another.

Другой.

Then we have наш.

Наш means ours.

It's again talking about possession of us as multiple people.

Then we have ну.

And ну means, it's kind of like a particle that we use in the conversation.

It's like ну, meaning like, well, this happened.

Ну.

So it doesn't really have as much meaning besides just being a filler word.

Ну.

Then we have POD.

POD means under or underneath something.

It can be either physical thing like you are under something or it can be in a company you're under somebody.

You know like under the governance.

Then we have GDĚ.

And GDĚ it can be a question of where?

GDĚ ty?

Where are you?

Or GDĚ can also be a conjunction.

I can say мы встретились где обычно we met where we meet usually or as usual so где is used for both of those meanings then we have дело and дело means a matter or a business you know when you are when you have your own thing that you're doing that you're involved with

Then we have JEST.

And JEST has two meanings.

One is to be, to exist, and other is to eat.

So the same spelling.

However, if you conjugate the two verbs, they'll have different conjugation.

So the only thing that is same about to eat and to be or to exist is the infinitive form.

But all the rest is going to be different.

The meaning is different and the conjugation is different too.

Then we have some.

And some means by myself.

When you're doing something with your own hands or doing something on your own.

For example, imagine this scenario.

You delegated some task to somebody and they didn't do it right.

And you say, я сделаю это сам.

I'll do it myself.

Kind of like that.

Then we have раз.

And раз has multiple meanings.

The most common one is time or attempt.

I can say один раз, one time or one try.

Два раза, two times.

But раз can also have a meaning of since.

Раз ты не приехал, то я тоже не поеду.

Since you didn't come, then I won't go either.

So раз can have two meanings.

And I guess they don't have the same...

Maybe they did used to have the same kind of root but the meaning is so different that it makes me think that it's just a completely different word but with the same spelling.

Then we have ШТОБЫ.

I'm surprised that ШТОБЫ didn't make it higher on the list.

ШТОБЫ means for, for something, in order to something.

I can say Я ПРИЕХАЛ, ЧТОБЫ УВИДЕТЬ ТЕБЯ.

I came to see you.

So ШТОБЫ means to or with a goal of or in order to.

Then we have dva, which means two, just a numeral for two.

Then we have tam, tam means there, okay, tam, somewhere over there, tam.

Then we have ЧЕМ.

ЧЕМ is... it can be either a form of ЧТО which is what and whenever we talk about some like object or it can be used in a comparative form.

I can say Я умнее чем ты.

I'm smarter than you.

So ЧЕМ can be either what or it can be then, right?

Then we have

GLAS, which is an eye.

GLAS.

Sometimes it can be used in the meaning of sight but more frequently as a meaning of an eye.

Then we have ZHIZN and ZHIZN means life.

ZHIZN.

Then we have PERVY.

PERVY means first.

PERVY.

So it's just like a numeral but an

Not a number, but an ordinal number.

So it's like a meaning of order.

First, second, third, etc.

Then we have день.

День means day.

День can be typically referred to as a day in a calendar, but can also be referred to an afternoon.

День.

Then we have тут.

We had там before, which was there, but тут is here.

Тут.

Then we have ВО.

And ВО, it can be either a variation of В, just adding the extra О to the end of it, or it can be a part of a combination like ВОПЕРВЫХ, at first, ВОПЕРВЫХ.

But also ВО can be as a particle, I guess, to say ВО.

Awesome, amazing, but typically во is accompanied with the thumbs up, во.

Or it can be accompanied with some negative like a middle finger, like take this kind of a thing.

I'm not gonna show it of course, but you know what I'm saying.

Then we have ничто.

And ничто means nothing, but typically we see ничто in the form of ничего.

Ничего is more common I think.

Then we have потом, which means afterwards or then.

Потом, so after something else.

Then we have очень.

Очень means very.

When you say очень умный, very smart.

Then they have one that we already talked about, so we're going to skip this one.

Then they have хотеть.

Хотеть means to want something.

Я хочу поехать домой.

I want to go home.

Хотеть.

Then we have ли.

Ли is a particle...

to say whether in English we have kind of a different logic or different structure but in Russian if we want to say ask him if he wants to do something or ask him whether he wants to do something we say it like this спроси у него хочет ли он есть ask him whether he wants to eat so we put ли after the verb like whether he wants or not but we just put ли after wants and that's going to have the same meaning then we have при

means attached to something or in front of somebody for example I can say for the meaning of in front of I can say I don't want to take clothes off in front of people so is used for that then we have which is a head then we have is typically used to say we have to we have to do something

Нам надо уехать.

We need to leave.

Okay?

So, надо is used for that.

Then we have без, which means without.

Без.

Pretty self-explanatory.

Then we have видеть.

Видеть means to see.

It's actually to mostly to talk about your physical ability to see something.

Not to look at something, but more like to be able to see.

Okay?

Then we have идти.

Идти means to go.

A very common verb as well.

Идти means to go and typically is referring to to go by walking.

Then we have TIPERI.

TIPERI means now, but TIPERI is not just, I cannot say now I'm recording this video with TIPERI.

TIPERI is not used for that.

TIPERI is used to talk about change of something, when something has changed.

I maybe was weak when I was young, but now I'm strong.

So it's a change of facts.

I was weak, but now I'm strong.

TIPERI is used for that.

Then we have ТОЖЕ.

ТОЖЕ means as well or typically when somebody says something and you can say Я ТОЖЕ.

Me too.

So that's kind of the meaning of ТОЖЕ when you are repeating what somebody else has done.

Not like I did this and that too.

We don't use ТОЖЕ for that reason.

Then we have СТОЯТЬ.

СТОЯТЬ means to stand.

СТОЯТЬ.

Then we have ДРУГ.

ДРУГ means a friend, male friend.

ДРУГ.

We're gonna also include this word ПОДРУГА for female friend.

ПОДРУГА.

Then we have ДОМ which is a house.

ДОМ.

And then we have two last ones.

We have СИЧАС.

сейчас means now remember when we said that теперь is a change of state that it was this but now it's something else сейчас can be used to just talk about right now what's happening right this second сейчас and the last word for today congratulations you made it to the very end and the word is можно можно means it is allowed to or it is it can be a question can i do something but mostly можно is used to say it's allowed to do something

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