LingoflyЗатты қарызға беру
- Затты қарызға беруZatty qaryzğa beruto lend a thing
“Затты қарызға беру” (Zatty qaryzğa beru) — to lend a thing in Kazakh. Phrase, level B1. Throaty q, soft throaty g: zat-TY qa-ryz-GHA be-RU. In a live sentence: “Көршіме бұрғыны қарызға бердім” (Körshime būrğyny qaryzğa berdim) — I lent the drill to the neighbour. You can hear how it sounds right here. Written with the characters З, а, т, т, ы, қ, а, р, ы, з, ғ, а… A word from the everyday Kazakh course, level B1.
In short
| Written in Kazakh | Затты қарызға беру (Zatty qaryzğa beru) |
| Read in Latin letters | Zatty qaryzğa beru |
| Translation | to lend a thing |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | B1 |
How to pronounce it
throaty q, soft throaty g: zat-TY qa-ryz-GHA be-RU
Why it looks that way
borrowing money uses the same word; to give into debt and to take into debt are told apart by the verb, not the case
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 lend a thing” in Kazakh?
«Затты қарызға беру» (Zatty qaryzğa beru), read “Zatty qaryzğa beru”. Throaty q, soft throaty g: zat-TY qa-ryz-GHA be-RU. In a live sentence: “Көршіме бұрғыны қарызға бердім” (Körshime būrğyny qaryzğa berdim) — I lent the drill to the neighbour. You can hear how it sounds right on this page. Phrase, level B1; written with the characters З, а, т, т, ы, қ, а, р, ы, з, ғ, а…
How is “Затты қарызға беру” (Zatty qaryzğa beru) written in Latin letters?
Zatty qaryzğa beru. 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?
Borrowing money uses the same word; to give into debt and to take into debt are told apart by the verb, not the case. 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.