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- Սեփական պիզնեսsep'agan biznesown business
“Սեփական պիզնես” (sep'agan biznes) — own business in Western Armenian. Noun, level B1. Սեփական (sep'agan) means one's own, and it says ownership more firmly than իմ (im), my. To open one is պիզնես (biznes) բացել (patsel) — with the opening verb of doors and accounts. In a live sentence: “Կ'ուզեմ սեփական պիզնես բացել” (g'uzem sep'agan biznes patsel) — I want to open my own business.
In short
| Written in Western Armenian | Սեփական պիզնես (sep'agan biznes) |
| Read in Latin letters | sep'agan biznes |
| Translation | own business |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
սեփական (sep'agan) means one's own, and it says ownership more firmly than իմ (im), my. To open one is պիզնես (biznes) բացել (patsel) — with the opening verb of doors and accounts
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.
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 “own business” in Western Armenian?
«Սեփական պիզնես» (sep'agan biznes), read “sep'agan biznes”. In a live sentence: “Կ'ուզեմ սեփական պիզնես բացել” (g'uzem sep'agan biznes patsel) — I want to open my own business. Noun, level B1; written with the characters Ս, ե, փ, ա, կ, ա, ն, պ, ի, զ, ն, ե…
How is “Սեփական պիզնես” (sep'agan biznes) written in Latin letters?
sep'agan biznes. 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?
Սեփական (sep'agan) means one's own, and it says ownership more firmly than իմ (im), my. To open one is պիզնես (biznes) բացել (patsel) — with the opening verb of doors and accounts. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.