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“qurbaqa” — frog in Uzbek. Noun, level A1. The deep throat q twice. In a live sentence: “Qurbaqa suzadi va sakraydi” — The frog swims and jumps. A word from the everyday Uzbek course, level A1.
In short
| Written in Uzbek | qurbaqa |
| Translation | frog |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A1 |
How to pronounce it
the deep throat q twice
Why it looks that way
It lives by the water, in the pond and in the grass. There is no separate word for the toad: "qurbaqa" — frog and toad at once.
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.
- Qurbaqa suzadi va sakraydiThe frog swims and jumps.
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 “frog” in Uzbek?
«qurbaqa». The deep throat q twice. In a live sentence: “Qurbaqa suzadi va sakraydi” — The frog swims and jumps. Noun, level A1.
Why does this word look the way it does?
It lives by the water, in the pond and in the grass. There is no separate word for the toad: "qurbaqa" — frog and toad at once. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.