لامپ را پیچاندن
“لامپ را پیچاندن” (lâmp râ pichândân) — to screw in the bulb in Persian. Phrase, level A1. To screw in — pichandan, the same pich as the screw. He screwed the bulb in and it lit up. In a live sentence: “لامپ را پیچاند و روشن شد” — He screwed in the bulb and it lit up. Written with the characters ل, ا, م, پ, ر, ا, پ, ی, چ, ا, ن, د… A word from the everyday Persian course, level A1.
In short
| Written in Persian | لامپ را پیچاندن |
| Read in Latin letters | lâmp râ pichândân |
| Translation | to screw in the bulb |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | A1 |
Why it looks that way
To screw in — pichandan, the same pich as the screw. He screwed the bulb in and it lit up
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.
- لامپ را پیچاند و روشن شدlâmp râ pichândâ va rushan shâdHe screwed in the bulb and it lit 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 “to screw in the bulb” in Persian?
«لامپ را پیچاندن», read “lâmp râ pichândân”. In a live sentence: “لامپ را پیچاند و روشن شد” — He screwed in the bulb and it lit up. Phrase, level A1; written with the characters ل, ا, م, پ, ر, ا, پ, ی, چ, ا, ن, د…
How is “لامپ را پیچاندن” written in Latin letters?
lâmp râ pichândân. 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?
To screw in — pichandan, the same pich as the screw. He screwed the bulb in and it lit up. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.