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окружать

surround

Meaning of окружать

to be all around something or someone

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Russian[ɐkrʊˈʐatʲ]
surround
окружать - surround
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окружать with German translation

окружать usage examples

🇩🇪German🇷🇺Russian

Hohe Bäume umgeben das Haus.

Высокие деревья окружают дом.

🇩🇪German🇷🇺Russian

Menschen umgeben den Musiker auf der Bühne.

Люди окружают музыканта на сцене.

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окружать belongs to the topic "Top 2500". Start with a short 7-word set so the word is easier to remember in context.

окружатьumgeben
готовитьkochen
менятьsich ändern
завязыватьbinden
следоватьfolgen
убиратьentfernen
ощущатьсяsich anfühlen

окружать synonyms

Related word breakdowns

What's the difference between окружать / обступать / обволакивать / обкрeживать / охватывать

О
🇷🇺Russian
окружать

Main neutral verb: to be all around someone or something.

B2Very Often
О
🇷🇺Russian
обступать

Neutral/literary: to surround closely, often as a group of people, a crowd, or objects, with a sense of closing in.

B2Often
О
🇷🇺Russian
обволакивать

Conveys a soft, dense, enveloping layer; often used with fog, smoke, smells, feelings, or fabric.

B2Often
О
🇷🇺Russian
обкрeживать

Stronger and more specific: to surround in a military, police, or tactical sense, usually to prevent escape.

B2Rarely
О
🇷🇺Russian
охватывать

Very close, but more often means 'to encompass completely' in a spatial or abstract sense; can sound more bookish.

B2Very Often
О
🇷🇺Russian
окружать собой

A descriptive intensified variant: emphasizes that someone or something literally occupies the space around another object.

B2Rarely
С
🇷🇺Russian
со всех сторон

Not a verb, but an adverbial phrase: specifies that the surrounding happens all around, completely.

B2Very Often
К
🇷🇺Russian
кругом

Conversational neutral adverb/particle: indicates being around, in a circle; not a precise verbal synonym on its own.

B2Very Often

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How to pronounce окружать and what this word means

окружать means surround. This page includes translation, pronunciation, transcription, audio, usage examples and related words.

how to pronounce окружать

[ɐkrʊˈʐatʲ]

окружать translation

surround

окружать examples

Hohe Bäume umgeben das Haus.

окружать transcription

[ɐkrʊˈʐatʲ]

Questions about this word

окружать meaning: what does it mean?

быть со всех сторон вокруг чего-то или кого-то

окружать pronunciation: how do you pronounce it?

окружать is pronounced as [ɐkrʊˈʐatʲ]. Audio is available on this page when the word has a recording.

окружать definition and sentence examples: how is it used in a sentence?

Hohe Bäume umgeben das Haus. Translation: Высокие деревья окружают дом.

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