Home and things in Kazakh

196 words Kazakh words on the topic “home and things”: Үй — house, Тұрғын үй — housing, Бөлме — room, Ас үй — kitchen. 196 words can be played from recordings.

Updated September 1, 2026 · Lingofly

196 words on the topic

How it sounds in a sentence

A word list is a blank. Conversation is made of sentences, and these are the ones the words fit into most often.

What is worth knowing about these words

Үй — house. "Uide" is "at home", "uige" is "home(ward)". Place and direction are told apart by endings.

Тұрғын үй — housing. From "turu", "to live" (unit 4): the house people live in. Listings are headed with exactly these words.

Бөлме — room. From "bolu", "to divide": a room is a part cut off from the house.

Ас үй — kitchen. "As" is "food", "ui" is "house": the house of food. The same "as" will meet you in "aspaz", "cook".

Test yourself

First by ear — the way you will meet the word in conversation. Click the speaker and pick the translation.

What is this word?
It is Үй — house.
What is this word?
It is Балкон — balcony.
What is this word?
It is Орындық — chair.
What is this word?
It is Кілт — key.
What is this word?
It is Үй жинау — tidying up.

Now the other way around: recall the spelling from the meaning. That is harder, and therefore more useful.

How do you say “house” in Kazakh?
"Uide" is "at home", "uige" is "home(ward)". Place and direction are told apart by endings.
How do you say “balcony” in Kazakh?
The borrowed word has settled in whole. The bookish "qyltima" lives in dictionaries, not in conversation.
How do you say “chair” in Kazakh?
"Oryn" is "a place", "-dyq" a thing for it: a place to sit.
How do you say “key” in Kazakh?
Also "sharply": "kilt buruldy" is "he turned sharply". A spring of water is a different word, "bulaq".
How do you say “tidying up” in Kazakh?
Literally "to gather the house": "zhinau" is both "to tidy" and "to gather". Tidying up means gathering the house.

How to learn the set instead of just reading it

Room, key, water, electricity. You will need them on your first day in a rented flat.

A list is read in a minute and forgotten in a day. What works: hide the translation, try to recall, get it wrong — and come back to the same words tomorrow.

Recalling beats re-reading. Covering the translation and trying to remember it does more than reading it ten more times.checked many times
Adesope, Trevisan & Sundararajan, 2017, Review of Educational Research 87(3) · 188 experiments, 272 comparisons. g = 0.61; against plain re-reading 0.51, against passive review 0.93.
This holds not only in experiments but in ordinary classrooms, with real students.checked many times
Mawson & Kang, 2025, Behavioral Sciences 15(6):771 · 22 studies, d = 0.54 (confidence interval 0.31–0.77). The authors warn that individual studies disagree widely.

Frequently asked

How do you say “house” in Kazakh?

«Үй». "Uide" is "at home", "uige" is "home(ward)". Place and direction are told apart by endings. It is one of 196 words in the set “home and things” — the rest are in the table above.

How many household words do you need to start?

A dozen is enough. The set of 196 words on this page covers nearly every everyday case on the topic — but it is best taken a few at a time, not all at once.

Is there audio?

Yes, 196 words on this page can be played — click the speaker next to the word. The sound works on any phone, and nothing needs to be installed.

Home and things in Kazakh

196 words on the topic

How it sounds in a sentence

What is worth knowing about these words

Test yourself

How to learn the set instead of just reading it

Frequently asked

How do you say “house” in Kazakh?

How many household words do you need to start?

Is there audio?

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