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- Кездесуді болдырмауKezdesudi boldyrmauto cancel the meeting
“Кездесуді болдырмау” (Kezdesudi boldyrmau) — to cancel the meeting in Kazakh. Phrase, level B1. Short i: kez-de-su-DI bol-dyr-MAU. In a live sentence: “Кездесуді болдырмауға тура келді” (Kezdesudi boldyrmauğa tura keldi) — The meeting had to be canceled. You can hear how it sounds right here. Written with the characters К, е, з, д, е, с, у, д, і, б, о, л… A word from the everyday Kazakh course, level B1.
In short
| Written in Kazakh | Кездесуді болдырмау (Kezdesudi boldyrmau) |
| Read in Latin letters | Kezdesudi boldyrmau |
| Translation | to cancel the meeting |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | B1 |
How to pronounce it
short i: kez-de-su-DI bol-dyr-MAU
Why it looks that way
boldyrmau is to not let happen, literally to not let be; about an already made order people say to refuse
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 cancel the meeting” in Kazakh?
«Кездесуді болдырмау» (Kezdesudi boldyrmau), read “Kezdesudi boldyrmau”. Short i: kez-de-su-DI bol-dyr-MAU. In a live sentence: “Кездесуді болдырмауға тура келді” (Kezdesudi boldyrmauğa tura keldi) — The meeting had to be canceled. You can hear how it sounds right on this page. Phrase, level B1; written with the characters К, е, з, д, е, с, у, д, і, б, о, л…
How is “Кездесуді болдырмау” (Kezdesudi boldyrmau) written in Latin letters?
Kezdesudi boldyrmau. 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?
Boldyrmau is to not let happen, literally to not let be; about an already made order people say to refuse. 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.