how to pronounce покидать

/pəkʲɪˈdatʲ/

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покидать is pronounced in three syllables

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kʲ

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tʲ

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

“… а ионы лития будут вновь покидать графит …”

meanings of покидать

verb:

To abandon, to desert.
To leave, to quit, to forsake.
To throw, to cast.

покидать frequency in russian - C2+ level of CEFR

the word покидать occurs in russian on average 4.1 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.