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Mark the stress in russian words with a ' character behind the vowel, e.g. ру'чки, this will be converted to ру́чки. Leave out the stress when it is unambiguous, which is when the word contains ё or only one vowel (the vowels are а, я, э, е, ы, и, о, ё, у and ю).

кни́га

noun, female, inanimate
very often used word (#220)

Noun basics

Noun gender partner (e.g. кошка for кот):

Is it living?: (unknown) inanimate animate

Translation

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The examples in this format please: Ру'сский текст - english text

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book

Also: volume

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Она чита́ет в сре́днем три-четыре кни́ги в неде́лю. She reads on average three or four books a week.
Он де́ржит кни́ги под мы́шкой. He is holding his books under his arm.
У тебя много книг. You have a lot of books.
Я начал писать кни́гу. I started to write a book.
Возьми́ кни́гу и прочита́й её! Take a book and read it.
Про́шлой но́чью она чита́ла пова́ренную кни́гу. She read a cookbook last night.
Я прочита́л э́тот расска́з в какой-то кни́ге. I have read that story in some book.
Не все кни́ги стоит чита́ть. Not all the books are worth reading.
Если я прочита́ю э́ту кни́гу еще раз, полу́чится, что я прочита́л ее трижды. If I read this book once more, I shall have read it three times.
Па́па купи́л мне кни́ги. Dad bought me books.

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Declension

Normal Singular only Plural only Indeclinable

	singular	plural
nom. nominative	кни́га	кни́ги
gen. genitive	кни́ги	кни́г
dat. dative	кни́ге	кни́гам
acc. accusative	кни́гу	кни́ги
inst. instrumental	кни́гой кни́гою	кни́гами
prep. prepositional	кни́ге	кни́гах