LingoflyТамағым ауырады
- Тамағым ауырадыTamağym auyradysore throat
“Тамағым ауырады” (Tamağym auyrady) — sore throat in Kazakh. Phrase, level A2. Throaty g, short y: ta-ma-GHYM a-uy-ra-DY. In a live sentence: “Кеше бері тамағым ауырады” (Keshe beri tamağym auyrady) — I have had a sore throat since yesterday. You can hear how it sounds right here. Written with the characters Т, а, м, а, ғ, ы, м, а, у, ы, р, а… A word from the everyday Kazakh course, level A2.
In short
| Written in Kazakh | Тамағым ауырады (Tamağym auyrady) |
| Read in Latin letters | Tamağym auyrady |
| Translation | sore throat |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | A2 |
How to pronounce it
throaty g, short y: ta-ma-GHYM a-uy-ra-DY
Why it looks that way
the body part takes the possessive -ym, my throat, and it is the throat, not I, that becomes the subject; careful with the twin: tamaq is throat and food, so tamaq ishtim means I ate
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 “sore throat” in Kazakh?
«Тамағым ауырады» (Tamağym auyrady), read “Tamağym auyrady”. Throaty g, short y: ta-ma-GHYM a-uy-ra-DY. In a live sentence: “Кеше бері тамағым ауырады” (Keshe beri tamağym auyrady) — I have had a sore throat since yesterday. You can hear how it sounds right on this page. Phrase, level A2; written with the characters Т, а, м, а, ғ, ы, м, а, у, ы, р, а…
How is “Тамағым ауырады” (Tamağym auyrady) written in Latin letters?
Tamağym auyrady. 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?
The body part takes the possessive -ym, my throat, and it is the throat, not I, that becomes the subject; careful with the twin: tamaq is throat and food, so tamaq ishtim means I ate. 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.