gastat
“gastat” — worn out in Valencian. Adjective, level B1. The spent; the soles of these boots are so worn you feel the ground. In a live sentence: “Les soles d'aquestes sabates estan tan gastades que se sent el terra” — The soles of these boots are so worn out you feel the ground. A word from the everyday Valencian course, level B1.
In short
| Written in Valencian | gastat |
| Translation | worn out |
| Part of speech | adjective |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
The spent; the soles of these boots are so worn you feel the ground
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.
- Les soles d'aquestes sabates estan tan gastades que se sent el terraThe soles of these boots are so worn out you feel the ground
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 “worn out” in Valencian?
«gastat». In a live sentence: “Les soles d'aquestes sabates estan tan gastades que se sent el terra” — The soles of these boots are so worn out you feel the ground. Adjective, level B1.
Why does this word look the way it does?
The spent; the soles of these boots are so worn you feel the ground. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.