how to pronounce отказывать

/ɐtˈkazɨvətʲ/

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отказывать is pronounced in four syllables

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

“… свободу но не надо отказывать мне в …”

meanings of отказывать

verb:

To break, to fail, to stop working.
To deny, to refuse, to decline.

отказывать frequency in russian - C2+ level of CEFR

the word отказывать occurs in russian on average 3 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.