how to pronounce покупать

/pəkʊˈpatʲ/

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покупать is pronounced in three syllables

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

“… что еще и повод покупать но смысле что …”

meanings of покупать

verb:

To bathe, to bath.
To buy, to purchase.

покупать frequency in russian - B1 level of CEFR

the word покупать occurs in russian on average 58.6 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.