Փողոց մաքրող
“Փողոց մաքրող” (p'oghots mak'rogh) — street sweeper in Western Armenian. Noun, level A1. The doorman of your building, դռնապան, is a different person. The one who sweeps the street is named for the job: փողոց, street, plus մաքրող, a cleaner. In a live sentence: “Փողոց մաքրողը վաղ առաւօտեան է կ'աշխատի” — The street sweeper starts work early in the morning. Written with the characters Փ, ո, ղ, ո, ց, մ, ա, ք, ր, ո, ղ. A word from the everyday Western Armenian course, level A1.
In short
| Written in Western Armenian | Փողոց մաքրող |
| Read in Latin letters | p'oghots mak'rogh |
| Translation | street sweeper |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A1 |
Why it looks that way
The doorman of your building, դռնապան, is a different person. The one who sweeps the street is named for the job: փողոց, street, plus մաքրող, a cleaner
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.
- Փողոց մաքրողը վաղ առաւօտեան է կ'աշխատիp'oghots mak'roghə vagh arravodean e g'ashkhadiThe street sweeper starts work early in the morning
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 “street sweeper” in Western Armenian?
«Փողոց մաքրող», read “p'oghots mak'rogh”. In a live sentence: “Փողոց մաքրողը վաղ առաւօտեան է կ'աշխատի” — The street sweeper starts work early in the morning. Noun, level A1; written with the characters Փ, ո, ղ, ո, ց, մ, ա, ք, ր, ո, ղ.
How is “Փողոց մաքրող” written in Latin letters?
p'oghots mak'rogh. 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?
The doorman of your building, դռնապան, is a different person. The one who sweeps the street is named for the job: փողոց, street, plus մաքրող, a cleaner. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.