اداره دارایی
“اداره دارایی” (dârâre dârâyi) — tax office in Persian. Noun, level B1. Literally "the administration of property": the incomes and estate. The tax in talk is its own word, and they ask: "did you pay the tax?" Where is it? says the example. In a live sentence: “اداره دارایی کجاست؟” — Where is the tax office? Written with the characters ا, د, ا, ر, ه, د, ا, ر, ا, ی, ی. A word from the everyday Persian course, level B1.
In short
| Written in Persian | اداره دارایی |
| Read in Latin letters | dârâre dârâyi |
| Translation | tax office |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
Literally "the administration of property": the incomes and estate. The tax in talk is its own word, and they ask: "did you pay the tax?" Where is it? 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.
- اداره دارایی کجاست؟dârâre dârâyi kâdzhâst؟Where is the tax office?
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 “tax office” in Persian?
«اداره دارایی», read “dârâre dârâyi”. In a live sentence: “اداره دارایی کجاست؟” — Where is the tax office? Noun, level B1; written with the characters ا, د, ا, ر, ه, د, ا, ر, ا, ی, ی.
How is “اداره دارایی” written in Latin letters?
dârâre dârâyi. 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 "the administration of property": the incomes and estate. The tax in talk is its own word, and they ask: "did you pay the tax?" Where is it? 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.