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- Bu qanday yoziladi?how is it spelled?
“Bu qanday yoziladi?” — how is it spelled? in Uzbek. Phrase, level A2. Literally "this how is written": yozilmoq — to be written, the reflexive form of yozmoq — to write. The question word stands first. In a live sentence: “Bu soʻz qanday yoziladi?” — How is this word spelled? A word from the everyday Uzbek course, level A2.
In short
| Written in Uzbek | Bu qanday yoziladi? |
| Translation | how is it spelled? |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | A2 |
Why it looks that way
Literally "this how is written": yozilmoq — to be written, the reflexive form of yozmoq — to write. The question word stands first.
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 “how is it spelled?” in Uzbek?
«Bu qanday yoziladi?» In a live sentence: “Bu soʻz qanday yoziladi?” — How is this word spelled? Phrase, level A2.
Why does this word look the way it does?
Literally "this how is written": yozilmoq — to be written, the reflexive form of yozmoq — to write. The question word stands first. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.