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- Խմելու ջուրkhmelu churdrinking water
“Խմելու ջուր” (khmelu chur) — drinking water in Western Armenian. Noun, level A2. The form խմելու (khmelu) is the possessive of the infinitive and works like an adjective: 'water for drinking'. The same recipe gives ուտելու բան (pan), something to eat, and քնանալու տեղ (degh), a place to sleep. In a live sentence: “Աղբիւրէն խմելու ջուր կ'առնենք” (aghpyuren khmelu chur g'arrnenk') — We take drinking water from the spring. Written with the characters Խ, մ, ե, լ, ո, ւ, ջ, ո, ւ, ր.
In short
| Written in Western Armenian | Խմելու ջուր (khmelu chur) |
| Read in Latin letters | khmelu chur |
| Translation | drinking water |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A2 |
Why it looks that way
The form խմելու (khmelu) is the possessive of the infinitive and works like an adjective: 'water for drinking'. The same recipe gives ուտելու բան (pan), something to eat, and քնանալու տեղ (degh), a place to sleep
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.
- Աղբիւրէն խմելու ջուր կ'առնենքaghpyuren khmelu chur g'arrnenk'We take drinking water from the spring
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 “drinking water” in Western Armenian?
«Խմելու ջուր» (khmelu chur), read “khmelu chur”. In a live sentence: “Աղբիւրէն խմելու ջուր կ'առնենք” (aghpyuren khmelu chur g'arrnenk') — We take drinking water from the spring. Noun, level A2; written with the characters Խ, մ, ե, լ, ո, ւ, ջ, ո, ւ, ր.
How is “Խմելու ջուր” (khmelu chur) written in Latin letters?
khmelu chur. 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 form խմելու (khmelu) is the possessive of the infinitive and works like an adjective: 'water for drinking'. The same recipe gives ուտելու բան (pan), something to eat, and քնանալու տեղ (degh), a place to sleep. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.