how to pronounce людей

/lʲʉˈdʲej/

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людей is pronounced in two syllables

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lʲ

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dʲ

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

“… топ-5 самых охраняемых людей в мире но я …”

meanings of людей

noun:

Genitive/accusative of лю́ди (ljúdi).
Genitive/accusative plural of челове́к (čelovék).

людей frequency in russian - A1 level of CEFR

the word людей occurs in russian on average 557.8 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.