izba przyjęć
“izba przyjęć” — emergency room in Polish. Noun, level A1. The base course promised this word in the hint to oddział — and noted there: it has its own entrance. Literally "the reception hall"; in short, Poles say SOR. In a live sentence: “Izba przyjęć jest obok wejścia” — The emergency room is next to the entrance. A word from the everyday Polish course, level A1.
In short
| Written in Polish | izba przyjęć |
| Translation | emergency room |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A1 |
Why it looks that way
The base course promised this word in the hint to oddział — and noted there: it has its own entrance. Literally "the reception hall"; in short, Poles say SOR.
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.
- Izba przyjęć jest obok wejściaThe emergency room is next to the entrance
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 “emergency room” in Polish?
«izba przyjęć». In a live sentence: “Izba przyjęć jest obok wejścia” — The emergency room is next to the entrance. Noun, level A1.
Why does this word look the way it does?
The base course promised this word in the hint to oddział — and noted there: it has its own entrance. Literally "the reception hall"; in short, Poles say SOR. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.