LingoflyАқшасыз қалу
- Ақшасыз қалуAqshasyz qaluto be left without money
“Ақшасыз қалу” (Aqshasyz qalu) — to be left without money in Kazakh. Phrase, level B1. Deep back q twice: aq-sha-SYZ qa-LU. In a live sentence: “Шетелде ақшасыз қалып қойдым” (Shetelde aqshasyz qalyp qoidym) — I was left abroad without money. You can hear how it sounds right here. Written with the characters А, қ, ш, а, с, ы, з, қ, а, л, у. A word from the everyday Kazakh course, level B1.
In short
| Written in Kazakh | Ақшасыз қалу (Aqshasyz qalu) |
| Read in Latin letters | Aqshasyz qalu |
| Translation | to be left without money |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | B1 |
How to pronounce it
deep back q twice: aq-sha-SYZ qa-LU
Why it looks that way
the English without is the suffix -syz straight on the word: moneyless, jobless, documentless; qalu is to remain in some state, and the same verb builds being left alone and being forgotten
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.
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 timesKim & 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 timesAdesope, 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 timesBertsch et al., 2007, Memory & Cognition 35(2) · 86 studies, 445 comparisons, d = 0.40.
Frequently asked
How do you say “to be left without money” in Kazakh?
«Ақшасыз қалу» (Aqshasyz qalu), read “Aqshasyz qalu”. Deep back q twice: aq-sha-SYZ qa-LU. In a live sentence: “Шетелде ақшасыз қалып қойдым” (Shetelde aqshasyz qalyp qoidym) — I was left abroad without money. You can hear how it sounds right on this page. Phrase, level B1; written with the characters А, қ, ш, а, с, ы, з, қ, а, л, у.
How is “Ақшасыз қалу” (Aqshasyz qalu) written in Latin letters?
Aqshasyz qalu. This is a practical spelling — you need it to read aloud and be understood, not to meet an academic standard.
Why does this word look the way it does?
The English without is the suffix -syz straight on the word: moneyless, jobless, documentless; qalu is to remain in some state, and the same verb builds being left alone and being forgotten. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.
Can I hear how this sounds?
Yes, right on this page: click the word and it will play. The sound works on any phone, and nothing needs to be installed.