LingoflyԸնտրել
- Ընտրելəndrelto choose
“Ընտրել” (əndrel) — to choose in Western Armenian. Verb, level A2, topic — shopping and money. The same verb means 'to vote': ընտրութիւններ (əndrut'yunner) — elections, literally 'choices'. In a live sentence: “Օգնեցէք ընտրել” (oknetsek' əndrel) — Help me choose. Written with the characters Ը, ն, տ, ր, ե, լ. One of 88 words in the set “shopping and money” in the Western Armenian course.
In short
| Written in Western Armenian | Ընտրել (əndrel) |
| Read in Latin letters | əndrel |
| Translation | to choose |
| Part of speech | verb |
| Level | A2 |
Why it looks that way
The same verb means 'to vote': ընտրութիւններ (əndrut'yunner) — elections, literally 'choices'
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.
Nearby words: shopping and money
How much it costs, whether there is a smaller one, whether cards are accepted. A shop forgives mistakes: miss a word and they will show you the thing with their hands anyway.
- Խանութkhanut'storeA borrowing from Arabic, where hanut means a shop. Plural:
խանութներ(khanut'ner) - ՇուկայshugaymarketClassical spelling adds a final յ:
շուկայ(shugay). The Eastern spelling isշուկա. Say shoo-GA - Պանքbank'bankThe Western press spells it
պանք(bank'), as it is said. There is also the nativeդրամատուն, a 'money house', which givesդրամատնային(tramadnayin), banking - ՎաճառողvajarroghsellerSame root
վաճառ-as in the market counter. The ending -ող turns a verb into its doer: literally 'the selling one' - ՀասածhasadzripeFrom
հասնիլ(hasnil), to arrive or to ripen: a ripe fruit is literally one that has 'arrived'. The -ած ending marks a finished state
Test yourself
Five questions from the same set — “shopping and money”. Recalling a spelling from meaning is harder than knowing a familiar word on sight, and therefore more useful.
- How do you say “to choose” in Western Armenian?
The same verb means 'to vote': ընտրութիւններ (əndrut'yunner) — elections, literally 'choices'
- How do you say “scales” in Western Armenian?
From կշռել (gshrrel), to weigh. Armenian keeps it singular — one կշեռք (gsherrk') — where English insists on a pair of scales
- How do you say “bank” in Western Armenian?
The Western press spells it պանք (bank'), as it is said. There is also the native դրամատուն, a 'money house', which gives դրամատնային (tramadnayin), banking
- How do you say “ripe” in Western Armenian?
From հասնիլ (hasnil), to arrive or to ripen: a ripe fruit is literally one that has 'arrived'. The -ած ending marks a finished state
- How do you say “buyer” in Western Armenian?
From գնել (knel), to buy. The same -ող doer-ending as in վաճառող (vajarrogh), the seller — one buys, the other sells
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 “to choose” in Western Armenian?
«Ընտրել» (əndrel), read “əndrel”. In a live sentence: “Օգնեցէք ընտրել” (oknetsek' əndrel) — Help me choose. Verb, level A2, from the set “shopping and money”; written with the characters Ը, ն, տ, ր, ե, լ.
How is “Ընտրել” (əndrel) written in Latin letters?
əndrel. 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 same verb means 'to vote': ընտրութիւններ (əndrut'yunner) — elections, literally 'choices'. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.