LingoflyҚолма-қол ақшамен төлеу
- Қолма-қол ақшамен төлеуQolma-qol aqshamen töleucash payment
“Қолма-қол ақшамен төлеу” (Qolma-qol aqshamen töleu) — cash payment in Kazakh. Noun, level A2. Deep back q three times, rounded lips: qol-ma-QOL aq-SHA-men to-LEU. In a live sentence: “Мұнда тек қолма-қол ақшамен төлеу” (Mūnda tek qolma-qol aqshamen töleu) — Here it is cash payment only. You can hear how it sounds right here. Written with the characters Қ, о, л, м, а, қ, о, л, а, қ, ш, а… A word from the everyday Kazakh course, level A2.
In short
| Written in Kazakh | Қолма-қол ақшамен төлеу (Qolma-qol aqshamen töleu) |
| Read in Latin letters | Qolma-qol aqshamen töleu |
| Translation | cash payment |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A2 |
How to pronounce it
deep back q three times, rounded lips: qol-ma-QOL aq-SHA-men to-LEU
Why it looks that way
qolma-qol aqsha means cash, literally hand to hand; the instrumental -men answers what you pay with, as in kartamen toleu, to pay by card
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 “cash payment” in Kazakh?
«Қолма-қол ақшамен төлеу» (Qolma-qol aqshamen töleu), read “Qolma-qol aqshamen töleu”. Deep back q three times, rounded lips: qol-ma-QOL aq-SHA-men to-LEU. In a live sentence: “Мұнда тек қолма-қол ақшамен төлеу” (Mūnda tek qolma-qol aqshamen töleu) — Here it is cash payment only. You can hear how it sounds right on this page. Noun, level A2; written with the characters Қ, о, л, м, а, қ, о, л, а, қ, ш, а…
How is “Қолма-қол ақшамен төлеу” (Qolma-qol aqshamen töleu) written in Latin letters?
Qolma-qol aqshamen töleu. 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?
Qolma-qol aqsha means cash, literally hand to hand; the instrumental -men answers what you pay with, as in kartamen toleu, to pay by card. 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.