Որքա՞ն ժամանակ պիտի տեւի
“Որքա՞ն ժամանակ պիտի տեւի” (vork'an zhamanag bidi devi) — how long will it take? in Western Armenian. Phrase, level A2. տեւել is to last; here it stands in the future with պիտի. Note the question mark ՞ sits inside the question word, not at the end of the line. In a live sentence: “Նորոգումը որքա՞ն ժամանակ պիտի տեւի” — How long will the repair take? Written with the characters Ո, ր, ք, ա, ն, ժ, ա, մ, ա, ն, ա, կ.
In short
| Written in Western Armenian | Որքա՞ն ժամանակ պիտի տեւի |
| Read in Latin letters | vork'an zhamanag bidi devi |
| Translation | how long will it take? |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | A2 |
Why it looks that way
տեւել is to last; here it stands in the future with պիտի. Note the question mark ՞ sits inside the question word, 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.
- Նորոգումը որքա՞ն ժամանակ պիտի տեւիnorokumə vork'an zhamanag bidi deviHow long will the repair take?
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 long will it take?” in Western Armenian?
«Որքա՞ն ժամանակ պիտի տեւի», read “vork'an zhamanag bidi devi”. In a live sentence: “Նորոգումը որքա՞ն ժամանակ պիտի տեւի” — How long will the repair take? Phrase, level A2; written with the characters Ո, ր, ք, ա, ն, ժ, ա, մ, ա, ն, ա, կ.
How is “Որքա՞ն ժամանակ պիտի տեւի” written in Latin letters?
vork'an zhamanag bidi devi. 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?
տեւել is to last; here it stands in the future with պիտի. Note the question mark ՞ sits inside the question word, 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.