LingoflyТабиғатты қорғау
- Табиғатты қорғауTabiğatty qorğauto protect nature
“Табиғатты қорғау” (Tabiğatty qorğau) — to protect nature in Kazakh. Phrase, level B1. Voiced g twice, throaty q: ta-bi-ghat-TY qor-GHAU. In a live sentence: “Мектепте табиғатты қорғау туралы айтты” (Mektepte tabiğatty qorğau turaly aitty) — At school they talked about how to protect nature. You can hear how it sounds right here. Written with the characters Т, а, б, и, ғ, а, т, т, ы, қ, о, р… A word from the everyday Kazakh course, level B1.
In short
| Written in Kazakh | Табиғатты қорғау (Tabiğatty qorğau) |
| Read in Latin letters | Tabiğatty qorğau |
| Translation | to protect nature |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | B1 |
How to pronounce it
voiced g twice, throaty q: ta-bi-ghat-TY qor-GHAU
Why it looks that way
qorghau is to defend: the same verb defends a thesis and a goal in football; tabighat is nature, an Arabic word
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.
- Мектепте табиғатты қорғау туралы айттыMektepte tabiğatty qorğau turaly aittyAt school they talked about how to protect nature
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 protect nature” in Kazakh?
«Табиғатты қорғау» (Tabiğatty qorğau), read “Tabiğatty qorğau”. Voiced g twice, throaty q: ta-bi-ghat-TY qor-GHAU. In a live sentence: “Мектепте табиғатты қорғау туралы айтты” (Mektepte tabiğatty qorğau turaly aitty) — At school they talked about how to protect nature. You can hear how it sounds right on this page. Phrase, level B1; written with the characters Т, а, б, и, ғ, а, т, т, ы, қ, о, р…
How is “Табиғатты қорғау” (Tabiğatty qorğau) written in Latin letters?
Tabiğatty qorğau. 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?
Qorghau is to defend: the same verb defends a thesis and a goal in football; tabighat is nature, an Arabic word. 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.