انكسرت الشاشة
“انكسرت الشاشة” (инкясират аш-шаша) — the screen cracked in Arabic. Phrase, level B1. Inkasara, "to break", is the same verb as the leg's: the screen in Arabic "breaks" the way a person limps. The doubled middle of the verb is the sign that it broke by itself — nobody broke it. In a live sentence: “الهاتف على الأرض وانكسرت الشاشة” — The phone is on the ground, and the screen cracked. A word from the everyday Arabic course, level B1.
In short
| Written in Arabic | انكسرت الشاشة |
| Read in Latin letters | инкясират аш-шаша |
| Translation | the screen cracked |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
Inkasara, "to break", is the same verb as the leg's: the screen in Arabic "breaks" the way a person limps. The doubled middle of the verb is the sign that it broke by itself — nobody broke it
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.
- الهاتف على الأرض وانكسرت الشاشةаль-хаатиф аля аль-ард ва-нкясират аш-шашаThe phone is on the ground, and the screen cracked
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 “the screen cracked” in Arabic?
«انكسرت الشاشة», read “инкясират аш-шаша”. In a live sentence: “الهاتف على الأرض وانكسرت الشاشة” — The phone is on the ground, and the screen cracked. Phrase, level B1; written with the characters ا, ن, ك, س, ر, ت, ا, ل, ش, ا, ش, ة.
How is “انكسرت الشاشة” written in Latin letters?
инкясират аш-шаша. 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?
Inkasara, "to break", is the same verb as the leg's: the screen in Arabic "breaks" the way a person limps. The doubled middle of the verb is the sign that it broke by itself — nobody broke it. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.