how to pronounce накрывать

/nəkrɨˈvatʲ/

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накрывать is pronounced in three syllables

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

“… вулкана не накрывать пеплом и пока не …”

meanings of накрывать

verb:

To catch (in the act).
To lay (a table).
To hit, to place fire on a target, to trap (from above, e.g. of artillery fire or bombing).
To cover (from above, e.g. with a lid).

накрывать frequency in russian - C2+ level of CEFR

the word накрывать occurs in russian on average 1.5 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.