koniec dnia pracy
“koniec dnia pracy” — end of the workday in Polish. Noun, level A1. The partner of początek dnia pracy. After do, "until", koniec moves into its of-form: do końca dnia pracy — "until the end of the workday" — everyone's favorite phrase. In a live sentence: “Do końca dnia pracy jest jeszcze godzina” — There is still an hour to the end of the workday. A word from the everyday Polish course, level A1.
In short
| Written in Polish | koniec dnia pracy |
| Translation | end of the workday |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A1 |
Why it looks that way
The partner of początek dnia pracy. After do, "until", koniec moves into its of-form: do końca dnia pracy — "until the end of the workday" — everyone's favorite phrase.
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.
- Do końca dnia pracy jest jeszcze godzinaThere is still an hour to the end of the workday
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 “end of the workday” in Polish?
«koniec dnia pracy». In a live sentence: “Do końca dnia pracy jest jeszcze godzina” — There is still an hour to the end of the workday. Noun, level A1.
Why does this word look the way it does?
The partner of początek dnia pracy. After do, "until", koniec moves into its of-form: do końca dnia pracy — "until the end of the workday" — everyone's favorite phrase. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.