LingoflyСабаққа қоңырау
- Сабаққа қоңырауSabaqqa qoñyrauschool bell
“Сабаққа қоңырау” (Sabaqqa qoñyrau) — school bell in Kazakh. Noun, level A2. Deep back q twice, nasal ng: sa-baq-QA qo-ngy-RAU. In a live sentence: “Сабаққа қоңырау соғылды” (Sabaqqa qoñyrau soğyldy) — The school bell rang. You can hear how it sounds right here. Written with the characters С, а, б, а, қ, қ, а, қ, о, ң, ы, р… A word from the everyday Kazakh course, level A2.
In short
| Written in Kazakh | Сабаққа қоңырау (Sabaqqa qoñyrau) |
| Read in Latin letters | Sabaqqa qoñyrau |
| Translation | school bell |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A2 |
How to pronounce it
deep back q twice, nasal ng: sa-baq-QA qo-ngy-RAU
Why it looks that way
qonyrau is the phone ring and the school bell alike — one word for both; where the bell calls you is marked by the to-where tail: sabaqqa, to the lesson
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.
- Сабаққа қоңырау соғылдыSabaqqa qoñyrau soğyldyThe school bell rang
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 “school bell” in Kazakh?
«Сабаққа қоңырау» (Sabaqqa qoñyrau), read “Sabaqqa qoñyrau”. Deep back q twice, nasal ng: sa-baq-QA qo-ngy-RAU. In a live sentence: “Сабаққа қоңырау соғылды” (Sabaqqa qoñyrau soğyldy) — The school bell rang. You can hear how it sounds right on this page. Noun, level A2; written with the characters С, а, б, а, қ, қ, а, қ, о, ң, ы, р…
How is “Сабаққа қоңырау” (Sabaqqa qoñyrau) written in Latin letters?
Sabaqqa qoñyrau. 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?
Qonyrau is the phone ring and the school bell alike — one word for both; where the bell calls you is marked by the to-where tail: sabaqqa, to the lesson. 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.