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- faturayı ödemekto pay the bill
“faturayı ödemek” — to pay the bill in Turkish. Phrase, level A2. Fatura (Italian fattura, an invoice) takes the direct-object ending: after a vowel a y is inserted, hence fatura-y-ı. In a café you don't say this, you ask for the hesap; a fatura comes from a utility or an office. You can pay it at a branch, in an app or at the corner shop: in Turkey it is accepted everywhere. In a live sentence: “Elektrik faturasını ödedim” — I paid the electricity bill.
In short
| Written in Turkish | faturayı ödemek |
| Translation | to pay the bill |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | A2 |
Why it looks that way
fatura (Italian fattura, an invoice) takes the direct-object ending: after a vowel a y is inserted, hence fatura-y-ı. In a café you don't say this, you ask for the hesap; a fatura comes from a utility or an office. You can pay it at a branch, in an app or at the corner shop: in Turkey it is accepted everywhere.
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.
- Elektrik faturasını ödedimI paid the electricity bill
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 pay the bill” in Turkish?
«faturayı ödemek». In a live sentence: “Elektrik faturasını ödedim” — I paid the electricity bill. You can hear how it sounds right on this page. Phrase, level A2.
Why does this word look the way it does?
Fatura (Italian fattura, an invoice) takes the direct-object ending: after a vowel a y is inserted, hence fatura-y-ı. In a café you don't say this, you ask for the hesap; a fatura comes from a utility or an office. You can pay it at a branch, in an app or at the corner shop: in Turkey it is accepted everywhere. 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.