لاستیک پنچر شد
“لاستیک پنچر شد” (lâstik pencher shâd) — the tire got punctured, flat tire in Persian. Phrase, level B1. The tire plus the puncture: a word from the workshop of European cars. A flat wheel is named exactly so. My tire got punctured, says the example. In a live sentence: “لاستیکم پنچر شد” — My tire got punctured. Written with the characters ل, ا, س, ت, ی, ک, پ, ن, چ, ر, ش, د. A word from the everyday Persian course, level B1.
In short
| Written in Persian | لاستیک پنچر شد |
| Read in Latin letters | lâstik pencher shâd |
| Translation | the tire got punctured, flat tire |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
The tire plus the puncture: a word from the workshop of European cars. A flat wheel is named exactly so. My tire got punctured, 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.
- لاستیکم پنچر شدlâstikâm pencher shâdMy tire got punctured
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 “the tire got punctured, flat tire” in Persian?
«لاستیک پنچر شد», read “lâstik pencher shâd”. In a live sentence: “لاستیکم پنچر شد” — My tire got punctured. Phrase, level B1; written with the characters ل, ا, س, ت, ی, ک, پ, ن, چ, ر, ش, د.
How is “لاستیک پنچر شد” written in Latin letters?
lâstik pencher shâd. 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 tire plus the puncture: a word from the workshop of European cars. A flat wheel is named exactly so. My tire got punctured, 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.