Ի՞նչ է քո անունը
“Ի՞նչ է քո անունը” (inch e k'o anunə) — what's your name? in Western Armenian. Phrase, level A0. Literally 'what is your name' — English word order, for once. The question mark ՞ sits over ի՞նչ, not at the end of the line. In a live sentence: “Բարեւ, ի՞նչ է քո անունը” — Hi, what's your name? Written with the characters Ի, ն, չ, է, ք, ո, ա, ն, ո, ւ, ն, ը. A word from the everyday Western Armenian course, level A0.
In short
| Written in Western Armenian | Ի՞նչ է քո անունը |
| Read in Latin letters | inch e k'o anunə |
| Translation | what's your name? |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | A0 |
Why it looks that way
Literally 'what is your name' — English word order, for once. The question mark ՞ sits over ի՞նչ, not at the end of the line
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.
- Բարեւ, ի՞նչ է քո անունըparev, inch e k'o anunəHi, what's your name?
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 “what's your name?” in Western Armenian?
«Ի՞նչ է քո անունը», read “inch e k'o anunə”. In a live sentence: “Բարեւ, ի՞նչ է քո անունը” — Hi, what's your name? Phrase, level A0; written with the characters Ի, ն, չ, է, ք, ո, ա, ն, ո, ւ, ն, ը.
How is “Ի՞նչ է քո անունը” written in Latin letters?
inch e k'o anunə. 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?
Literally 'what is your name' — English word order, for once. The question mark ՞ sits over ի՞նչ, not at the end of the line. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.