LingoflyՍտացող
- Ստացողsdatsoghrecipient
“Ստացող” (sdatsogh) — recipient in Western Armenian. Noun, level B1. The word ends in ղ, a throat scrape, not a g: sda-TSOGH. In a live sentence: “Ստացողին հասցէն սխալ գրուած է” (sdatsoghin hastsen skhal krvadz e) — The recipient's address is written wrongly. Written with the characters Ս, տ, ա, ց, ո, ղ. A word from the everyday Western Armenian course, level B1.
In short
| Written in Western Armenian | Ստացող (sdatsogh) |
| Read in Latin letters | sdatsogh |
| Translation | recipient |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | B1 |
How to pronounce it
the word ends in ղ, a throat scrape, not a g: sda-TSOGH
Why it looks that way
From ստանալ (sdanal), to receive, plus -ող: the same doer ending as in վաճառող (vajarrogh). The sender, ղրկող, is built the same way
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.
- Ստացողին հասցէն սխալ գրուած էsdatsoghin hastsen skhal krvadz eThe recipient's address is written wrongly
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 “recipient” in Western Armenian?
«Ստացող» (sdatsogh), read “sdatsogh”. The word ends in ղ, a throat scrape, not a g: sda-TSOGH. In a live sentence: “Ստացողին հասցէն սխալ գրուած է” (sdatsoghin hastsen skhal krvadz e) — The recipient's address is written wrongly. Noun, level B1; written with the characters Ս, տ, ա, ց, ո, ղ.
How is “Ստացող” (sdatsogh) written in Latin letters?
sdatsogh. 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?
From ստանալ (sdanal), to receive, plus -ող: the same doer ending as in վաճառող (vajarrogh). The sender, ղրկող, is built the same way. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.