The fastest words to learn are the ones you see most. This deck lists the 60 most common Belarusian words, each with a clear English meaning and a real example sentence. Study them below, or download the deck for Anki or Quizlet.
The best Belarusian flashcards to learn first are the words you meet most often. This free deck pairs the 60 most common Belarusian words, like чалавек, дом, вада, with a plain English meaning and a real example sentence for each. Download it as a CSV for Anki or Quizlet, or learn the words in context by reading.
CSV columns are word, translation, example (with a header row). Ready to import into Anki, Quizlet, or any spaced-repetition app.
60 most common Belarusian words · Updated July 2026
| Belarusian | Meaning | Example |
|---|---|---|
| чалавек | person, human | Гэты чалавек мой сябар. |
| дом | house, home | Мой дом вялікі. |
| вада | water | Я п'ю ваду. |
| хлеб | bread | Мы купляем хлеб. |
| час | time | У мяне няма часу. |
| дзень | day | Сёння добры дзень. |
| ноч | night | Ноч цёмная. |
| год | year | Гэты год быў добры. |
| сябар | friend | Ён мой лепшы сябар. |
| сям'я | family | Мая сям'я вялікая. |
| кніга | book | Я чытаю кнігу. |
| слова | word | Я вывучыў новае слова. |
| горад | city, town | Мінск вялікі горад. |
| краіна | country | Беларусь мая краіна. |
| мова | language | Беларуская мова прыгожая. |
| дзіця | child | Дзіця спіць. |
| жанчына | woman | Гэтая жанчына мая маці. |
| мужчына | man | Мужчына чытае газету. |
| праца | work, job | Мая праца цікавая. |
| школа | school | Дзеці ідуць у школу. |
| быць | to be | Я хачу быць лекарам. |
| мець | to have | Ён мае вялікі дом. |
| рабіць | to do, to make | Што ты робіш? |
| гаварыць | to speak, to talk | Я гавару па-беларуску. |
| ісці | to go, to walk | Я іду дадому. |
| бачыць | to see | Я цябе бачу. |
| ведаць | to know | Я не ведаю. |
| хацець | to want | Я хачу есці. |
| любіць | to love; to like | Я люблю музыку. |
| думаць | to think | Я думаю пра цябе. |
| есці | to eat | Дзеці ядуць яблыкі. |
| піць | to drink | Ён любіць піць гарбату. |
| жыць | to live | Я жыву ў Мінску. |
| чытаць | to read | Дзеці чытаюць казкі. |
| пісаць | to write | Я пішу ліст. |
| працаваць | to work | Ён працуе ў офісе. |
| разумець | to understand | Я цябе разумею. |
| казаць | to say, to tell | Ён заўсёды кажа праўду. |
| прыходзіць | to come, to arrive | Ён прыходзіць дадому позна. |
| даваць | to give | Яна дае мне парады. |
| добры | good | Ён добры чалавек. |
| вялікі | big, large | Слон вялікі. |
| малы | small | Сабака малы. |
| новы | new | У мяне новы тэлефон. |
| стары | old | Мой дзед стары. |
| прыгожы | beautiful, pretty | Яна вельмі прыгожая. |
| цікавы | interesting | Фільм быў вельмі цікавы. |
| хуткі | fast, quick | У яго хуткі аўтамабіль. |
| цяжкі | heavy; difficult | Мая сумка цяжкая. |
| лёгкі | light; easy | Гэта лёгкая задача. |
| і | and | Я і ты сябры. |
| але | but | Я хачу пайсці, але не магу. |
| або | or | Ты хочаш гарбату або каву? |
| не | not; no | Не, дзякуй. |
| так | yes | Так, я згодны. |
| што | what; that | Што гэта такое? |
| дзе | where | Дзе ты жывеш? |
| калі | when; if | Калі ты прыйдзеш? |
| чаму | why | Чаму ты сумны? |
| як | how | Як справы? |
Flashcards fix words in memory; reading teaches you to use them. Lingo7 lets you read real books in Belarusian with sentence-aligned translation and native-narrated audio, and save any word to review later. Free to start.
The deck is built from high-frequency words, the ones that make up most of everyday Belarusian. Learning them first gives you the biggest return per card, because you will meet them again and again the moment you start reading or listening.
Flashcards work best with spaced repetition: review a card, and if you knew it, wait longer before seeing it again. Anki and Quizlet both do this automatically. Download the CSV, import it, and review a few minutes a day. Keep the example sentence on the card so you learn how the word actually behaves, not just its dictionary gloss.
One honest limit: flashcards build recognition, but you learn to use a word by meeting it in real context. Pair this deck with reading. When a word you drilled shows up in a story, it stops being a flashcard and becomes part of the language. That pairing is what reading in Lingo7 is built for.
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Start with the most frequent words. A few thousand high-frequency Belarusian words cover the majority of everyday text, so each of those cards pays off far more than a rare one. This deck gives you the top 60 to begin with, each with a meaning and an example sentence, so you learn the word in context rather than in isolation. When a card sticks, meet the word again in a real book to lock it in.
Click Download CSV to save the deck, then in Anki choose File, Import and select the file. Map the first column to the front (the Belarusian word) and the second to the back (the meaning); the third column holds an example sentence you can add to the back too. The first row is a header, so tell Anki to ignore it or delete that one card. For Quizlet, use Copy for Quizlet and paste into the import box with Tab between term and definition.
Flashcards are excellent for building recognition and drilling the first few thousand words, but on their own they teach words out of context. You learn to use Belarusian, not just recognize it, by reading and hearing the words in real sentences. The efficient combination is flashcards for raw vocabulary plus reading for context, collocation and grammar. That is exactly what Lingo7 is built around.
Roughly 2,000 to 3,000 common words cover most everyday Belarusian text, and around 5,000 gets you comfortably through many novels. You do not need all of them before you start: with sentence-aligned translation you can begin reading real Belarusian at a couple of thousand words and pick up the rest from context. This deck is a fast way to front-load the most useful 60.