Գները բարձրացած են
“Գները բարձրացած են” (knerə partsratsadz en) — prices have gone up in Western Armenian. Phrase, level B1. գին is price, plural գներ. Բարձրանալ is to rise by itself — while the transitive բարձրացնել raises something. The way down is գները իջած են, prices have dropped. In a live sentence: “Այս տարի գները շատ են բարձրացած” — This year prices have gone up a lot. Written with the characters Գ, ն, ե, ր, ը, բ, ա, ր, ձ, ր, ա, ց.
In short
| Written in Western Armenian | Գները բարձրացած են |
| Read in Latin letters | knerə partsratsadz en |
| Translation | prices have gone up |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
գին is price, plural գներ. Բարձրանալ is to rise by itself — while the transitive բարձրացնել raises something. The way down is գները իջած են, prices have dropped
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.
- Այս տարի գները շատ են բարձրացածays dari knerə shad en partsratsadzThis year prices have gone up a lot
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 “prices have gone up” in Western Armenian?
«Գները բարձրացած են», read “knerə partsratsadz en”. In a live sentence: “Այս տարի գները շատ են բարձրացած” — This year prices have gone up a lot. Phrase, level B1; written with the characters Գ, ն, ե, ր, ը, բ, ա, ր, ձ, ր, ա, ց.
How is “Գները բարձրացած են” written in Latin letters?
knerə partsratsadz en. 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?
գին is price, plural գներ. Բարձրանալ is to rise by itself — while the transitive բարձրացնել raises something. The way down is գները իջած են, prices have dropped. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.