Түзету

In short

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  Түзету

  to fix (an error)

How to pronounce it

round u, stress at the end: tu-ze-TU

Why it looks that way

from tuzu, straight: to make straight again; you correct a mistake, a text, a behavior; a broken thing is fixed with another verb, zhoneu

A word with a story stays in memory longer than one learned as a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.

In a live sentence

A single word almost never appears alone in conversation. A sentence shows where it fits and what stands next to it.

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  Қатеңізді түзетіңіз

  Correct your mistake

Nearby words: verbs

I want, I can, I am going, I know. Twenty verbs cover more everyday sentences than two hundred nouns.

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  Керек

  needed

  Stands at the end of the sentence: "magan su kerek" is "I need water" — literally "for-me water [is] needed".
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  Ұнайды

  is liked

  The subject is the thing that pleases: "magan shai unaidy" is "the tea appeals to me" — the liking is done by the tea, not by you.
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  Бару

  to go

  The infinitive ends in "-u". "Uige baramyn" is "I am going home".
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  Жеу

  to eat

  Only about food: "eat" in the sense of "exist" is a different word, "bar". Inviting you to the table, they say "zhengiz" — do eat.
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  Ішу

  to drink

  Also "to take medicine": "dari ishu". Soup is "drunk" too, not eaten.
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  Оқу

  to read

  The same word says "to study": "universitette oqimyn" is "I study at the university". Exactly like the Turkish okumak.
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  Сөйлеу

  to speak

  To speak in general; to say something specific is "aitu". One root with "soz", "word", and "soilem", "sentence".
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  Істеу

  to work

  The same word says "to do": "ne istep zhaturshyn?" is "what are you doing?". About the workplace: "bankte isteimin", "I work at a bank".
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  Тұру

  to live

  The same word says "to stand up" and "to cost": "erte turamyn" is "I get up early", "qansha turady?" is "how much does it cost". Only the phrase tells them apart.
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  Бар

  there is

  A whole verb in three letters, placed at the end: "su bar ma?" is "is there water?". Much like the Turkish var. "To eat" is the other word, "zheu".

Test yourself

Five questions from the same set — “verbs”. Recalling a spelling from meaning is harder than knowing a familiar word on sight, and therefore more useful.

How not to forget this word

Reading a word and remembering it are different jobs. A day later, little survives of a single reading — and that is not bad memory, that is how memory works.

• This has been tested on foreign words too. The difference shows up most when you test yourself a few days later rather than straight away.checked many times
  Kim & Webb, 2022, Language Learning 72(2) · 48 experiments, 3,411 participants, 98 comparisons.
• 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.
• An answer you worked out yourself sticks better than one handed to you.checked many times
  Bertsch et al., 2007, Memory & Cognition 35(2) · 86 studies, 445 comparisons, d = 0.40.

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