aplikazioa instalatu
“aplikazioa instalatu” — install an app in Basque. Phrase, level B1. Both words loans from Latin, openly admitted. Shortened in speech to aplika. In a live sentence: “Aplikazioa instalatu dut hiztegiarekin ikasteko” — I installed the app with the dictionary for my studies. A word from the everyday Basque course, level B1.
In short
| Written in Basque | aplikazioa instalatu |
| Translation | install an app |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
Both words loans from Latin, openly admitted. Shortened in speech to aplika
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.
- Aplikazioa instalatu dut hiztegiarekin ikastekoI installed the app with the dictionary for my studies
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 “install an app” in Basque?
«aplikazioa instalatu». In a live sentence: “Aplikazioa instalatu dut hiztegiarekin ikasteko” — I installed the app with the dictionary for my studies. Phrase, level B1.
Why does this word look the way it does?
Both words loans from Latin, openly admitted. Shortened in speech to aplika. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.