LingoflyБағалар өсті
- Бағалар өстіBağalar östiprices went up
“Бағалар өсті” (Bağalar östi) — prices went up in Kazakh. Phrase, level B1. Throaty g, rounded lips: ba-gha-LAR os-TI. In a live sentence: “Былтырдан бері бағалар өсті” (Byltyrdan beri bağalar östi) — Prices went up since last year. You can hear how it sounds right here. Written with the characters Б, а, ғ, а, л, а, р, ө, с, т, і. A word from the everyday Kazakh course, level B1.
In short
| Written in Kazakh | Бағалар өсті (Bağalar östi) |
| Read in Latin letters | Bağalar östi |
| Translation | prices went up |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | B1 |
How to pronounce it
throaty g, rounded lips: ba-gha-LAR os-TI
Why it looks that way
baga here in its first sense, price; its other sense is the school mark; osu is to grow — about prices, children and grass alike; to get cheaper is arzandau
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.
- Былтырдан бері бағалар өстіByltyrdan beri bağalar östiPrices went up since last year
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 “prices went up” in Kazakh?
«Бағалар өсті» (Bağalar östi), read “Bağalar östi”. Throaty g, rounded lips: ba-gha-LAR os-TI. In a live sentence: “Былтырдан бері бағалар өсті” (Byltyrdan beri bağalar östi) — Prices went up since last year. You can hear how it sounds right on this page. Phrase, level B1; written with the characters Б, а, ғ, а, л, а, р, ө, с, т, і.
How is “Бағалар өсті” (Bağalar östi) written in Latin letters?
Bağalar östi. 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?
Baga here in its first sense, price; its other sense is the school mark; osu is to grow — about prices, children and grass alike; to get cheaper is arzandau. 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.