جمعبندی کنیم
“جمعبندی کنیم” (dzham-bândi kânim) — let us sum up, wrap up in Persian. Phrase, level B1. The half-break inside makes one word: jam-bandi. In a live sentence: “آخر جلسه جمعبندی کنیم” — At the end of the meeting we will sum up. Written with the characters ج, م, ع, ب, ن, د, ی, ک, ن, ی, م. A word from the everyday Persian course, level B1.
In short
| Written in Persian | جمعبندی کنیم |
| Read in Latin letters | dzham-bândi kânim |
| Translation | let us sum up, wrap up |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | B1 |
How to pronounce it
the half-break inside makes one word: jam-bandi
Why it looks that way
Literally "a gathering-together": the summary here is "gathered", like the harvest. At a work meeting it is the obligatory finale. At the end of the meeting we will sum up, 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.
- آخر جلسه جمعبندی کنیمâkhâre dzhalase dzham-bândi kânimAt the end of the meeting we will sum up
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 “let us sum up, wrap up” in Persian?
«جمعبندی کنیم», read “dzham-bândi kânim”. The half-break inside makes one word: jam-bandi. In a live sentence: “آخر جلسه جمعبندی کنیم” — At the end of the meeting we will sum up. Phrase, level B1; written with the characters ج, م, ع, ب, ن, د, ی, ک, ن, ی, م.
How is “جمعبندی کنیم” written in Latin letters?
dzham-bândi kânim. 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 "a gathering-together": the summary here is "gathered", like the harvest. At a work meeting it is the obligatory finale. At the end of the meeting we will sum up, 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.