Առանց փողի մնալ
“Առանց փողի մնալ” (arrants p'oghi mnal) — to be left without money in Western Armenian. Phrase, level B1. առանց is 'without', and what follows goes possessive: առանց փողի, առանց քեզ, առանց ջուրի. Մնալ is 'to stay, to remain' — here it does the job of 'end up'. In a live sentence: “Քարտը չ'աշխատեց, եւ առանց փողի մնացանք” — The card didn't work, and we were left without money. Written with the characters Ա, ռ, ա, ն, ց, փ, ո, ղ, ի, մ, ն, ա.
In short
| Written in Western Armenian | Առանց փողի մնալ |
| Read in Latin letters | arrants p'oghi mnal |
| Translation | to be left without money |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
առանց is 'without', and what follows goes possessive: առանց փողի, առանց քեզ, առանց ջուրի. Մնալ is 'to stay, to remain' — here it does the job of 'end up'
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.
- Քարտը չ'աշխատեց, եւ առանց փողի մնացանքk'ardə ch'ashkhadets, yev arrants p'oghi mnatsank'The card didn't work, and we were left without money
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 “to be left without money” in Western Armenian?
«Առանց փողի մնալ», read “arrants p'oghi mnal”. In a live sentence: “Քարտը չ'աշխատեց, եւ առանց փողի մնացանք” — The card didn't work, and we were left without money. Phrase, level B1; written with the characters Ա, ռ, ա, ն, ց, փ, ո, ղ, ի, մ, ն, ա.
How is “Առանց փողի մնալ” written in Latin letters?
arrants p'oghi mnal. This is a practical spelling — you need it to read aloud and be understood, not to meet an academic standard.
Why does this word look the way it does?
առանց is 'without', and what follows goes possessive: առանց փողի, առանց քեզ, առանց ջուրի. Մնալ is 'to stay, to remain' — here it does the job of 'end up'. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.