تشرفت بمعرفتك
“تشرفت بمعرفتك” (ташаррафту би-маʿрифатик) — nice to meet you in Arabic. Phrase, level A0. Literally "I have been honoured by knowing you". The shadda in tasharrafitu is a long rr, longer than an ordinary r. In a live sentence: “مرحبا, تشرفت بمعرفتك” — Hi, nice to meet you. Written with the characters ت, ش, ر, ف, ت, ب, م, ع, ر, ف, ت, ك. A word from the everyday Arabic course, level A0.
In short
| Written in Arabic | تشرفت بمعرفتك |
| Read in Latin letters | ташаррафту би-маʿрифатик |
| Translation | nice to meet you |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | A0 |
Why it looks that way
Literally "I have been honoured by knowing you". The shadda in tasharrafitu is a long rr, longer than an ordinary r
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.
- مرحبا, تشرفت بمعرفتكмархаба, ташаррафту би-маʿрифатикHi, nice to meet you
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 “nice to meet you” in Arabic?
«تشرفت بمعرفتك», read “ташаррафту би-маʿрифатик”. In a live sentence: “مرحبا, تشرفت بمعرفتك” — Hi, nice to meet you. Phrase, level A0; written with the characters ت, ش, ر, ف, ت, ب, م, ع, ر, ف, ت, ك.
How is “تشرفت بمعرفتك” written in Latin letters?
ташаррафту би-маʿрифатик. 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?
Literally "I have been honoured by knowing you". The shadda in tasharrafitu is a long rr, longer than an ordinary r. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.