wózek do bagażu
“wózek do bagażu” — luggage trolley in Polish. Noun, level A1. Wózek bagażowy and wózek do bagażu are the same little cart; the second shows the purpose with do plus the of-form. In a live sentence: “Wózek do bagażu stoi w korytarzu” — The luggage trolley is standing in the corridor. A word from the everyday Polish course, level A1.
In short
| Written in Polish | wózek do bagażu |
| Translation | luggage trolley |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A1 |
Why it looks that way
Wózek bagażowy and wózek do bagażu are the same little cart; the second shows the purpose with do plus the of-form.
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.
- Wózek do bagażu stoi w korytarzuThe luggage trolley is standing in the corridor
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 “luggage trolley” in Polish?
«wózek do bagażu». In a live sentence: “Wózek do bagażu stoi w korytarzu” — The luggage trolley is standing in the corridor. Noun, level A1.
Why does this word look the way it does?
Wózek bagażowy and wózek do bagażu are the same little cart; the second shows the purpose with do plus the of-form. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.