pozwolenie na pobyt
“pozwolenie na pobyt” — residence permit in Polish. Noun, level A2. Literally "permission for staying", and both words are from the housing lesson: miejsce zamieszkania is of the same stock. Kin to można and wolno — everything about "it is permitted". In a live sentence: “Pozwolenie na pobyt jest w paszporcie” — The residence permit is in the passport. A word from the everyday Polish course, level A2.
In short
| Written in Polish | pozwolenie na pobyt |
| Translation | residence permit |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A2 |
Why it looks that way
Literally "permission for staying", and both words are from the housing lesson: miejsce zamieszkania is of the same stock. Kin to można and wolno — everything about "it is permitted".
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.
- Pozwolenie na pobyt jest w paszporcieThe residence permit is in the passport
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 “residence permit” in Polish?
«pozwolenie na pobyt». In a live sentence: “Pozwolenie na pobyt jest w paszporcie” — The residence permit is in the passport. Noun, level A2.
Why does this word look the way it does?
Literally "permission for staying", and both words are from the housing lesson: miejsce zamieszkania is of the same stock. Kin to można and wolno — everything about "it is permitted". A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.