Քանի անգամ
“Քանի անգամ” (k'ani ankam) — how many times? in Western Armenian. Adverb, level A1. After քանի the noun always stays singular: քանի՞ անգամ, never անգամներ. անգամ is 'an occasion'. In a live sentence: “Օրական քանի՞ անգամ” — How many times a day. Written with the characters Ք, ա, ն, ի, ա, ն, գ, ա, մ. A word from the everyday Western Armenian course, level A1.
In short
| Written in Western Armenian | Քանի անգամ |
| Read in Latin letters | k'ani ankam |
| Translation | how many times? |
| Part of speech | adverb |
| Level | A1 |
Why it looks that way
After քանի the noun always stays singular: քանի՞ անգամ, never անգամներ. անգամ is 'an occasion'
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.
- Օրական քանի՞ անգամoragan k'ani ankamHow many times a day
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 “how many times?” in Western Armenian?
«Քանի անգամ», read “k'ani ankam”. In a live sentence: “Օրական քանի՞ անգամ” — How many times a day. Adverb, level A1; written with the characters Ք, ա, ն, ի, ա, ն, գ, ա, մ.
How is “Քանի անգամ” written in Latin letters?
k'ani ankam. 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?
After քանի the noun always stays singular: քանի՞ անգամ, never անգամներ. անգամ is 'an occasion'. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.