how to pronounce несчастье

/nʲɪˈɕːæsʲtʲje/

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несчастье is pronounced in three syllables

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nʲ

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ɕː

sʲ

tʲ

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

“… было бы счастья да несчастье помогло то …”

meanings of несчастье

noun:

Misfortune, bad luck.
Unhappiness.

несчастье frequency in russian - C2 level of CEFR

the word несчастье occurs in russian on average 5.9 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.