أشعر بالخجل
“أشعر بالخجل” (ашʿур би-ль-хаджаль) — I am ashamed in Arabic. Phrase, level B1. You have already read "I feel bored": a feeling in Arabic is always "I feel + with what". Khajal is shame: to say "I feel shame" is to admit a mistake halfway. In a live sentence: “أشعر بالخجل الآن” — I am ashamed now. Written with the characters أ, ش, ع, ر, ب, ا, ل, خ, ج, ل. A word from the everyday Arabic course, level B1.
In short
| Written in Arabic | أشعر بالخجل |
| Read in Latin letters | ашʿур би-ль-хаджаль |
| Translation | I am ashamed |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
You have already read "I feel bored": a feeling in Arabic is always "I feel + with what". Khajal is shame: to say "I feel shame" is to admit a mistake halfway
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.
- أشعر بالخجل الآنашʿур би-ль-хаджаль аль-аанI am ashamed now
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 “I am ashamed” in Arabic?
«أشعر بالخجل», read “ашʿур би-ль-хаджаль”. In a live sentence: “أشعر بالخجل الآن” — I am ashamed now. Phrase, level B1; written with the characters أ, ش, ع, ر, ب, ا, ل, خ, ج, ل.
How is “أشعر بالخجل” written in Latin letters?
ашʿур би-ль-хаджаль. This is a practical spelling — you need it to read aloud and be understood, not to meet an academic standard.
Why does this word look the way it does?
You have already read "I feel bored": a feeling in Arabic is always "I feel + with what". Khajal is shame: to say "I feel shame" is to admit a mistake halfway. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.