انگشت را روی صفحه کشیدن
“انگشت را روی صفحه کشیدن” (angusht râ ruye safhe keshidan) — to swipe the screen in Persian. Phrase, level A1. The finger glides over the screen as a brush over paper: the pulling verb you know. So photographs are leafed through. Swipe and look at the photos, says the example. In a live sentence: “انگشتت را روی صفحه بکش و عکس را ببین.” — Swipe the screen and look at the photos. A word from the everyday Persian course, level A1.
In short
| Written in Persian | انگشت را روی صفحه کشیدن |
| Read in Latin letters | angusht râ ruye safhe keshidan |
| Translation | to swipe the screen |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | A1 |
Why it looks that way
The finger glides over the screen as a brush over paper: the pulling verb you know. So photographs are leafed through. Swipe and look at the photos, says the example
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.
- انگشتت را روی صفحه بکش و عکس را ببین.angushtet râ ruye safhe bekesh â aks râ bebin.Swipe the screen and look at the photos.
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 “to swipe the screen” in Persian?
«انگشت را روی صفحه کشیدن», read “angusht râ ruye safhe keshidan”. In a live sentence: “انگشتت را روی صفحه بکش و عکس را ببین.” — Swipe the screen and look at the photos. Phrase, level A1; written with the characters ا, ن, گ, ش, ت, ر, ا, ر, و, ی, ص, ف…
How is “انگشت را روی صفحه کشیدن” written in Latin letters?
angusht râ ruye safhe keshidan. 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?
The finger glides over the screen as a brush over paper: the pulling verb you know. So photographs are leafed through. Swipe and look at the photos, says the example. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.