Lingoflydevoriy soat
- wall clock
“devoriy soat” — wall clock in Uzbek. Noun, level A1. A rounded oʻ in devoriy. In a live sentence: “Eski devoriy soat yaxshi yuradi” — The old wall clock runs well. A word from the everyday Uzbek course, level A1.
In short
| Written in Uzbek | devoriy soat |
| Translation | wall clock |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A1 |
How to pronounce it
a rounded oʻ in devoriy
Why it looks that way
"Devoriy soat" is already written in the course as "clock (device)", and these are the same clocks on the wall; the wrist ones are called otherwise — "qoʻl soati".
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.
- The old wall clock runs well.
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 “wall clock” in Uzbek?
«devoriy soat». A rounded oʻ in devoriy. In a live sentence: “Eski devoriy soat yaxshi yuradi” — The old wall clock runs well. Noun, level A1.
Why does this word look the way it does?
"Devoriy soat" is already written in the course as "clock (device)", and these are the same clocks on the wall; the wrist ones are called otherwise — "qoʻl soati". A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.