Lingoflyturar joy binosi
- turar joy binosiresidential building
“turar joy binosi” — residential building in Uzbek. Noun, level A1, topic — the city and its places. Literally "a building for dwelling": "turar joy" — housing — you know, "bino" adds exactly a house-building. An office would not be called so. In a live sentence: “Bu turar joy binosi, doʻkon emas.” — This is a residential building, not a shop. One of 79 words in the set “the city and its places” in the Uzbek course.
In short
| Written in Uzbek | turar joy binosi |
| Translation | residential building |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A1 |
Why it looks that way
Literally "a building for dwelling": "turar joy" — housing — you know, "bino" adds exactly a house-building. An office would not be called so.
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.
Nearby words: the city and its places
Street, square, pharmacy, bank. An address is built out of these, and an address is something you have to both say and understand.
- shaharcitythe h is a light breath only
- koʻchastreeta rounded oʻ inside
- maydonsquareSquare and field at once: one word. The Registon in Samarkand is the country's most famous maydon.
- olomoncrowdA crowd without judgment: festive and market alike. From "ol-" — many: the word itself speaks of multitude.
- velosipedbicyclePeople ride "velosipedda" — on the bicycle; the word itself does not mention its two wheels.
- avtobus bekatibus stopbekat — a stop and a station at once: of a bus and of the metro. Whose stop is said by the first word.
- oylik chiptamonthly passLiterally "monthly ticket": oy — month, oylik — monthly. A single ticket is bought for one ride, and the difference shows in the price at once.
- yoʻnalishroutea rounded oʻ between o and yo
- piyoda oʻtish joyicrosswalka rounded oʻ between o and yo
Test yourself
Five questions from the same set — “the city and its places”. Recalling a spelling from meaning is harder than knowing a familiar word on sight, and therefore more useful.
- How do you say “residential building” in Uzbek?
Literally "a building for dwelling": "turar joy" — housing — you know, "bino" adds exactly a house-building. An office would not be called so.
- How do you say “bus stop” in Uzbek?
bekat — a stop and a station at once: of a bus and of the metro. Whose stop is said by the first word.
- How do you say “square” in Uzbek?
Square and field at once: one word. The Registon in Samarkand is the country's most famous maydon.
- How do you say “crosswalk” in Uzbek?
piyoda — a pedestrian, oʻtish — crossing, joyi — place: "the place of a walking crossing". That is what the sign by the road says.
- How do you say “bicycle” in Uzbek?
People ride "velosipedda" — on the bicycle; the word itself does not mention its two wheels.
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 “residential building” in Uzbek?
«turar joy binosi». In a live sentence: “Bu turar joy binosi, doʻkon emas.” — This is a residential building, not a shop. Noun, level A1, from the set “the city and its places”.
Why does this word look the way it does?
Literally "a building for dwelling": "turar joy" — housing — you know, "bino" adds exactly a house-building. An office would not be called so. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.