LingoflyԴժուար կու գայ
- Դժուար կու գայtzhuar gu kayit doesn't come easily
“Դժուար կու գայ” (tzhuar gu kay) — it doesn't come easily in Western Armenian. Phrase, level B1. Literally 'it comes hard': կու (gu) գայ (kay), from գալ (kal), to come. The person it is hard for stands in the 'to whom' form: ինծի (indzi) դժուար կու գայ (tzhuar gu kay). In a live sentence: “Քերականութիւնը ինծի դժուար կու գայ” (k'eraganut'yunə indzi tzhuar gu kay) — Grammar doesn't come easily to me. Written with the characters Դ, ժ, ո, ւ, ա, ր, կ, ո, ւ, գ, ա, յ.
In short
| Written in Western Armenian | Դժուար կու գայ (tzhuar gu kay) |
| Read in Latin letters | tzhuar gu kay |
| Translation | it doesn't come easily |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
Literally 'it comes hard': կու (gu) գայ (kay), from գալ (kal), to come. The person it is hard for stands in the 'to whom' form: ինծի (indzi) դժուար կու գայ (tzhuar gu kay)
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.
- Քերականութիւնը ինծի դժուար կու գայk'eraganut'yunə indzi tzhuar gu kayGrammar doesn't come easily to me
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 “it doesn't come easily” in Western Armenian?
«Դժուար կու գայ» (tzhuar gu kay), read “tzhuar gu kay”. In a live sentence: “Քերականութիւնը ինծի դժուար կու գայ” (k'eraganut'yunə indzi tzhuar gu kay) — Grammar doesn't come easily to me. Phrase, level B1; written with the characters Դ, ժ, ո, ւ, ա, ր, կ, ո, ւ, գ, ա, յ.
How is “Դժուար կու գայ” (tzhuar gu kay) written in Latin letters?
tzhuar gu kay. 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?
Literally 'it comes hard': կու (gu) գայ (kay), from գալ (kal), to come. The person it is hard for stands in the 'to whom' form: ինծի (indzi) դժուար կու գայ (tzhuar gu kay). A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.