how to pronounce город

/ˈɡorət/

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город is pronounced in two syllables

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An example use of город in a speech by a native speaker of standard russian:

“… города усть-кут в город киренск далеко в …”

meanings of город

noun:

City, town.
Downtown.

город frequency in russian - A1 level of CEFR

the word город occurs in russian on average 175.4 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for A1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.