how to pronounce девица

/dʲɪˈvʲit͡sə/

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the above transcription of девица is a detailed (narrow) transcription according to the rules of the International Phonetic Association; you can find a description of each symbol by clicking the phoneme buttons in the secction below.

девица is pronounced in three syllables

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1.

dʲ

2.

vʲ

3.

t͡s

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

“… десятки наверное не девица есть разные …”

meanings of девица

noun:

Damsel, maid, maiden, girl.

девица frequency in russian - C2 level of CEFR

the word девица occurs in russian on average 5.4 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.