Lingoflyqatʼiy
- strict (stern)
“qatʼiy” — strict (stern) in Uzbek. Adjective, level A1. The ʼ splits the syllables with a glottal stop. In a live sentence: “Otam qatʼiy odam, kechikishni yoqtirmaydi” — My father is a stern person; he does not like lateness. A word from the everyday Uzbek course, level A1.
In short
| Written in Uzbek | qatʼiy |
| Translation | strict (stern) |
| Part of speech | adjective |
| Level | A1 |
How to pronounce it
the ʼ splits the syllables with a glottal stop
Why it looks that way
"Qattiq" — hard, from the early lessons, about stone and mattress; "qatʼiy" — stern about rules and character: a strict schedule, a stern person.
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 “strict (stern)” in Uzbek?
«qatʼiy». The ʼ splits the syllables with a glottal stop. In a live sentence: “Otam qatʼiy odam, kechikishni yoqtirmaydi” — My father is a stern person; he does not like lateness. Adjective, level A1.
Why does this word look the way it does?
"Qattiq" — hard, from the early lessons, about stone and mattress; "qatʼiy" — stern about rules and character: a strict schedule, a stern person. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.