dzień pracy
“dzień pracy” — working day in Polish. Noun, level A2. Literally "a day of work". Eight hours is the standard, and od rana do wieczora — "from morning till evening" — is the formula of any overworked day. In a live sentence: “Dzień pracy jest od rana do wieczora” — The working day runs from morning till evening. A word from the everyday Polish course, level A2.
In short
| Written in Polish | dzień pracy |
| Translation | working day |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A2 |
Why it looks that way
Literally "a day of work". Eight hours is the standard, and od rana do wieczora — "from morning till evening" — is the formula of any overworked day.
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.
- Dzień pracy jest od rana do wieczoraThe working day runs from morning till evening
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 “working day” in Polish?
«dzień pracy». In a live sentence: “Dzień pracy jest od rana do wieczora” — The working day runs from morning till evening. Noun, level A2.
Why does this word look the way it does?
Literally "a day of work". Eight hours is the standard, and od rana do wieczora — "from morning till evening" — is the formula of any overworked day. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.