"по" meaning in Russian

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Preposition

IPA: [pə], [pɐ], [ˈpo] Audio: Ru-по.ogg Forms: po [romanization]
Etymology: Inherited from Proto-Slavic *po. Etymology templates: {{dercat|ru|ine-bsl-pro|ine-pro|inh=2}}, {{glossary|Inherited}} Inherited, {{inh|ru|sla-pro|*po|||g=|g2=|g3=|id=|lit=|nocat=|pos=|sc=|sort=|tr=|ts=}} Proto-Slavic *po, {{inh+|ru|sla-pro|*po}} Inherited from Proto-Slavic *po Head templates: {{head|ru|preposition}} по • (po)
  1. [with dative]
    used broadly to indicate action, typically involving movement, across a surface or across several things in a generally flat plane; across, on, along, down, up, all over, (all) around:
    Sense id: en-по-ru-prep-pFwqr93C
  2. [with dative]
    used to indicate the object/field/topic that something applies to; for, on, about, in, of (or translated with an attributive noun followed by a noun)
    Sense id: en-по-ru-prep-P2wcWDy7
  3. [with dative]
    used to indicate accordance with, adherence to or judgement based on something; according to, from, by
    Synonyms: согла́сно
    Sense id: en-по-ru-prep-bQ3i6UX9
  4. [with dative]
    used to indicate the reason for something, typically undesired/undesirable (see usage notes on из-за (iz-za)); due to, on account of, out of, from, by
    Synonyms: из-за
    Sense id: en-по-ru-prep-MxWyu2Qm
  5. [with dative]
    used with time (usually times of day or days of the week) to indicate regular repetition; on, in (the), every (or translated with a plural noun)
    Synonyms: ка́ждый
    Sense id: en-по-ru-prep-NU3IWu4k Categories (other): Pages with 9 entries, Pages with entries, Russian entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Pages with 9 entries: 0 2 0 2 1 2 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 1 2 1 1 6 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 5 6 3 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 2 1 0 0 5 0 0 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 0 2 0 2 1 3 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 1 2 1 1 7 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 4 4 3 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 2 1 0 0 5 0 0 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 Disambiguation of Russian entries with incorrect language header: 6 9 6 5 35 14 14 4 4 0 1 2
  6. [with dative]
    used with numbers when there is distribution among multiple objects or repetition across multiple instances in time (dative case is used with the numbers one, a thousand, a million, a billion, a trillion etc. and numbers ending in these words)
    Sense id: en-по-ru-prep-9VMhRcGR
  7. [with accusative]
    used with numbers when there is distribution among multiple objects or repetition across multiple instances in time (inanimate accusative case is used with numbers other than one, a thousand, a million, a billion, a trillion etc. or numbers ending in these words)
    Sense id: en-по-ru-prep-6QJ5ix6q
  8. [with accusative]
    Used to indicate something serving as the boundary of the extent of some action.
    Synonyms: до
    Sense id: en-по-ru-prep-hQ2GUIf5
  9. [with prepositional]
    (literary, official) Used to indicate a temporal or spatial boundary; (immediately) after, upon, on
    Tags: literary Synonyms: по́сле
    Sense id: en-по-ru-prep-fJuvLyHY Categories (other): Russian prepositions Disambiguation of Russian prepositions: 4 8 5 5 5 5 7 5 15 15 14 14
  10. [with prepositional]
    to the liking of
    Sense id: en-по-ru-prep-Tu5yKfL4 Categories (other): Russian prepositions Disambiguation of Russian prepositions: 4 8 5 5 5 5 7 5 15 15 14 14
  11. [with prepositional or dative]
    Sense id: en-по-ru-prep-MuTjFLyz Categories (other): Russian prepositions Disambiguation of Russian prepositions: 4 8 5 5 5 5 7 5 15 15 14 14
  12. [with prepositional or dative]
    used to indicate an object of rumination, yearning, mourning; over, for
    Sense id: en-по-ru-prep-4eRVwVjv Categories (other): Russian prepositions Disambiguation of Russian prepositions: 4 8 5 5 5 5 7 5 15 15 14 14
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: по ме́ре того́ как (po mére tovó kak)
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          "text": "Министе́рство по чрезвыча́йным ситуа́циям (МЧС) ― Ministérstvo po črezvyčájnym situácijam (MČS) ― The Ministry of Emergency Situations (MChS)",
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          "english": "sewing guide / guide to/for/on sewing",
          "roman": "rukovódstvo po šitʹjú",
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          "text": "по пла́ну",
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          "english": "(on) Thursdays / every Thursday",
          "roman": "po četvergám",
          "text": "по четверга́м",
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          "english": "evenings / every evening",
          "roman": "po večerám",
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          "english": "I gave each person twenty-one roubles.",
          "roman": "Ja dal káždomu čelovéku po dvadcatí odnomú rubljú.",
          "text": "Я дал ка́ждому челове́ку по двадцати́ одному́ рублю́.",
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          "english": "He swam a thousand metres every day.",
          "roman": "On plával káždyj denʹ po týsjače métrov.",
          "text": "Он пла́вал ка́ждый день по ты́сяче ме́тров.",
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          "english": "They sell a million albums a year.",
          "roman": "Oní prodajút po milliónu alʹbómov v god.",
          "text": "Они́ продаю́т по миллио́ну альбо́мов в год.",
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          "text": "Они́ бы́ли разделены́ на гру́ппы по три челове́ка. ― Oní býli razdelený na grúppy po tri čelovéka. ― They were divided into groups of three people. (Note: not the animate трёх (trjox).)",
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Russian dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-03-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-03-02 using wiktextract (db0bec0 and 633533e). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.