how to pronounce семья

/sʲɪˈmʲja/

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семья is pronounced in two syllables

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sʲ

mʲ

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

“… этом помогла моя семья я как бы читать …”

meanings of семья

noun:

Family.

семья frequency in russian - B1 level of CEFR

the word семья occurs in russian on average 69.7 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for B1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.