قرار را لغو کردن
“قرار را لغو کردن” (garâr râ lâgv kân) — to cancel a meeting in Persian. Phrase, level B1. The cancellation: the same word cancels a subscription and a flight. A meeting is "taken off" with one short verb — briefly and businesslike. I will have to cancel the meeting, says the example. In a live sentence: “مجبورم قرار را لغو کنم” — I will have to cancel the meeting. Written with the characters ق, ر, ا, ر, ر, ا, ل, غ, و, ک, ر, د…
In short
| Written in Persian | قرار را لغو کردن |
| Read in Latin letters | garâr râ lâgv kân |
| Translation | to cancel a meeting |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
The cancellation: the same word cancels a subscription and a flight. A meeting is "taken off" with one short verb — briefly and businesslike. I will have to cancel the meeting, 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.
- مجبورم قرار را لغو کنمmâdzhburâm garâr râ lâgv kânamI will have to cancel the meeting
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 cancel a meeting” in Persian?
«قرار را لغو کردن», read “garâr râ lâgv kân”. In a live sentence: “مجبورم قرار را لغو کنم” — I will have to cancel the meeting. Phrase, level B1; written with the characters ق, ر, ا, ر, ر, ا, ل, غ, و, ک, ر, د…
How is “قرار را لغو کردن” written in Latin letters?
garâr râ lâgv kân. 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 cancellation: the same word cancels a subscription and a flight. A meeting is "taken off" with one short verb — briefly and businesslike. I will have to cancel the meeting, 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.