چی پیشنهاد میکنید؟
“چی پیشنهاد میکنید؟” (chi pishnâhâd mi-kânid؟) — what do you recommend? in Persian. Phrase, level A1. Pishnahad is a proposal, kardan does it: what do you propose? The question that hands the choice to the waiter. In a live sentence: “غذای امروز چی پیشنهاد میکنید؟” — What do you recommend today? Written with the characters چ, ی, پ, ی, ش, ن, ه, ا, د, م, ی, ک… A word from the everyday Persian course, level A1.
In short
| Written in Persian | چی پیشنهاد میکنید؟ |
| Read in Latin letters | chi pishnâhâd mi-kânid؟ |
| Translation | what do you recommend? |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | A1 |
Why it looks that way
Pishnahad is a proposal, kardan does it: what do you propose? The question that hands the choice to the waiter
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.
- غذای امروز چی پیشنهاد میکنید؟ghâza-ye emruz chi pishnâhâd mi-kânid؟What do you recommend today?
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 “what do you recommend?” in Persian?
«چی پیشنهاد میکنید؟», read “chi pishnâhâd mi-kânid؟”. In a live sentence: “غذای امروز چی پیشنهاد میکنید؟” — What do you recommend today? Phrase, level A1; written with the characters چ, ی, پ, ی, ش, ن, ه, ا, د, م, ی, ک…
How is “چی پیشنهاد میکنید؟” written in Latin letters?
chi pishnâhâd mi-kânid؟. 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?
Pishnahad is a proposal, kardan does it: what do you propose? The question that hands the choice to the waiter. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.