russian word
someone else's, belonging to another in Russian: чужой
adjectivelevel B1#719 by frequency
every form stress-marked · levels from the official TORFL lexical minimum
Не бери чужие вещи без разрешения. Don't take other people's things without permission.
Он живёт за чужой счёт. He lives at someone else's expense.
Найти работу в чужом городе не так просто. It's not so easy to find work in an unfamiliar town.
Среди этих людей я чувствовал себя совсем чужим. Among these people I felt completely like a stranger.
What does чужой mean in Russian?
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someone else's, belonging to another
Declension of чужой
Stress marks show the stressed vowel; it moves between forms more often than learners expect.
| masc | neut | fem | plural | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| nom | чужой | чужое | чужая | чужие |
| gen | чужого | чужого | чужой | чужих |
| dat | чужому | чужому | чужой | чужим |
| acc | чужой / чужого | чужое | чужую | чужие / чужих |
| ins | чужим | чужим | чужой / (чужою) | чужими |
| prep | чужом | чужом | чужой | чужих |