how to pronounce день

/dʲenʲ/

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день is pronounced in one syllable

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dʲ

nʲ

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

“… филин не больше раза в день и мы в этом …”

meanings of день

noun:

Afternoon, early evening.
Day, daytime.

verb:

Second-person singular imperative perfective of деть (detʹ).

день frequency in russian - A1 level of CEFR

the word день occurs in russian on average 951.6 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.