LingoflyԱռանց սառոյցի
- Առանց սառոյցիarrants sarruytsiwithout ice
“Առանց սառոյցի” (arrants sarruytsi) — without ice in Western Armenian. Phrase, level A1. Առանց (arrants) wants the possessive: սառոյց (sarruyts), ice, gives սառոյցի (sarruytsi), just as շաքար (shak'ar) gives շաքարի (shak'ari) — without sugar. In a live sentence: “Լիմոնատը առանց սառոյցի, խնդրեմ” (limonadə arrants sarruytsi, khntrem) — Lemonade without ice, please. Written with the characters Ա, ռ, ա, ն, ց, ս, ա, ռ, ո, յ, ց, ի. A word from the everyday Western Armenian course, level A1.
In short
| Written in Western Armenian | Առանց սառոյցի (arrants sarruytsi) |
| Read in Latin letters | arrants sarruytsi |
| Translation | without ice |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | A1 |
Why it looks that way
Առանց (arrants) wants the possessive: սառոյց (sarruyts), ice, gives սառոյցի (sarruytsi), just as շաքար (shak'ar) gives շաքարի (shak'ari) — without sugar
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.
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 “without ice” in Western Armenian?
«Առանց սառոյցի» (arrants sarruytsi), read “arrants sarruytsi”. In a live sentence: “Լիմոնատը առանց սառոյցի, խնդրեմ” (limonadə arrants sarruytsi, khntrem) — Lemonade without ice, please. Phrase, level A1; written with the characters Ա, ռ, ա, ն, ց, ս, ա, ռ, ո, յ, ց, ի.
How is “Առանց սառոյցի” (arrants sarruytsi) written in Latin letters?
arrants sarruytsi. 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?
Առանց (arrants) wants the possessive: սառոյց (sarruyts), ice, gives սառոյցի (sarruytsi), just as շաքար (shak'ar) gives շաքարի (shak'ari) — without sugar. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.