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- tomongatoward (direction)
“tomonga” — toward (direction) in Uzbek. Phrase, level A2. From tomon — side: toward. "Shahar tomonga" — toward the city; the street too: "koʻcha tomonga" — toward the street. In a live sentence: “Shahar tomonga bordik.” — We went toward the city. A word from the everyday Uzbek course, level A2.
In short
| Written in Uzbek | tomonga |
| Translation | toward (direction) |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | A2 |
Why it looks that way
From tomon — side: toward. "Shahar tomonga" — toward the city; the street too: "koʻcha tomonga" — toward the street.
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.
- Shahar tomonga bordik.We went toward the city.
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 “toward (direction)” in Uzbek?
«tomonga». In a live sentence: “Shahar tomonga bordik.” — We went toward the city. Phrase, level A2.
Why does this word look the way it does?
From tomon — side: toward. "Shahar tomonga" — toward the city; the street too: "koʻcha tomonga" — toward the street. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.