how to pronounce петь

/pʲetʲ/

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the above transcription of петь is a detailed (narrow) transcription according to the rules of the International Phonetic Association; you can find a description of each symbol by clicking the phoneme buttons in the secction below.

петь is pronounced in one syllable

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1.

pʲ

tʲ

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

“… начали много об этом петь что ну и дать …”

meanings of петь

verb:

To crow.
To sing.

петь frequency in russian - C1 level of CEFR

the word петь occurs in russian on average 18.9 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.