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- Սեղանի խաղseghani khaghboard game
“Սեղանի խաղ” (seghani khagh) — board game in Western Armenian. Noun, level A1. Սեղան (seghan), table, plus խաղ (khagh), game — the table's game. The main one at home is նարդի, backgammon. In a live sentence: “Սեղանի խաղ խաղանք” (seghani khagh khaghank') — Let's play a board game. Written with the characters Ս, ե, ղ, ա, ն, ի, խ, ա, ղ. A word from the everyday Western Armenian course, level A1.
In short
| Written in Western Armenian | Սեղանի խաղ (seghani khagh) |
| Read in Latin letters | seghani khagh |
| Translation | board game |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A1 |
Why it looks that way
Սեղան (seghan), table, plus խաղ (khagh), game — the table's game. The main one at home is նարդի, backgammon
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.
- Սեղանի խաղ խաղանքseghani khagh khaghank'Let's play a board game
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 “board game” in Western Armenian?
«Սեղանի խաղ» (seghani khagh), read “seghani khagh”. In a live sentence: “Սեղանի խաղ խաղանք” (seghani khagh khaghank') — Let's play a board game. Noun, level A1; written with the characters Ս, ե, ղ, ա, ն, ի, խ, ա, ղ.
How is “Սեղանի խաղ” (seghani khagh) written in Latin letters?
seghani khagh. 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?
Սեղան (seghan), table, plus խաղ (khagh), game — the table's game. The main one at home is նարդի, backgammon. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.