LingoflyԵս այս հարցով եկած եմ
- Ես այս հարցով եկած եմyes ays hartsov yegadz emI came about this
“Ես այս հարցով եկած եմ” (yes ays hartsov yegadz em) — I came about this in Western Armenian. Phrase, level B1. Հարց (harts) is a question and a matter, with the instrumental -ով: 'about this matter'. On the phone: այս (ays) հարցով (hartsov) կը (gə) զանգեմ (zankem). The English 'about' is already inside the ending. In a live sentence: “Ես այս հարցով եկած եմ, երկար պիտի չպահեմ” (yes ays hartsov yegadz em, yergar bidi chbahem) — I came about this — I will not take long.
In short
| Written in Western Armenian | Ես այս հարցով եկած եմ (yes ays hartsov yegadz em) |
| Read in Latin letters | yes ays hartsov yegadz em |
| Translation | I came about this |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
հարց (harts) is a question and a matter, with the instrumental -ով: 'about this matter'. On the phone: այս (ays) հարցով (hartsov) կը (gə) զանգեմ (zankem). The English 'about' is already inside the ending
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.
- Ես այս հարցով եկած եմ, երկար պիտի չպահեմyes ays hartsov yegadz em, yergar bidi chbahemI came about this — I will not take long
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 “I came about this” in Western Armenian?
«Ես այս հարցով եկած եմ» (yes ays hartsov yegadz em), read “yes ays hartsov yegadz em”. In a live sentence: “Ես այս հարցով եկած եմ, երկար պիտի չպահեմ” (yes ays hartsov yegadz em, yergar bidi chbahem) — I came about this — I will not take long. Phrase, level B1; written with the characters Ե, ս, ա, յ, ս, հ, ա, ր, ց, ո, վ, ե…
How is “Ես այս հարցով եկած եմ” (yes ays hartsov yegadz em) written in Latin letters?
yes ays hartsov yegadz em. 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?
Հարց (harts) is a question and a matter, with the instrumental -ով: 'about this matter'. On the phone: այս (ays) հարցով (hartsov) կը (gə) զանգեմ (zankem). The English 'about' is already inside the ending. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.