el pes del paquet
“el pes del paquet” — package weight in Catalan. Noun, level A1. Honestly "the weight of the package". El pes decides the price: every extra gram is a coin. In a live sentence: “El pes del paquet marca el preu del segell” — The package weight sets the price of the stamp. A word from the everyday Catalan course, level A1.
In short
| Written in Catalan | el pes del paquet |
| Translation | package weight |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A1 |
Why it looks that way
Honestly "the weight of the package". El pes decides the price: every extra gram is a coin
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.
- El pes del paquet marca el preu del segellThe package weight sets the price of the stamp
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 “package weight” in Catalan?
«el pes del paquet». In a live sentence: “El pes del paquet marca el preu del segell” — The package weight sets the price of the stamp. Noun, level A1.
Why does this word look the way it does?
Honestly "the weight of the package". El pes decides the price: every extra gram is a coin. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.