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свет

noun, masculine, inanimate

Daily used word (top 200)

  • 1.

    light

  • 2.

    world

  • 3.

    high society

    Quite common in 19th Century literature (cf. the French 'monde')

    Example:

    Как dandy ло́ндонский оде́т, И наконе́ц уви́дел свет.

    He was dressed like a London dandy, And at last he beheld high society first-hand. (A S Pushkin, Yevgeniy Onegin Chapter 1, Verse 4)

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Declension

singularplural
nom.nominative

све́т

све́ты

gen.genitive

све́та

све́тов

dat.dative

све́ту

све́там

acc.accusative

све́т

све́ты

inst.instrumental

све́том

све́тами

prep.prepositional

све́те

све́тах

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