ماشین میرانم
“ماشین میرانم” (mâshin mi-rânam) — to drive a car in Persian. Phrase, level A2. To drive, to lead: the car is led by the same verb as the horse once was. The license is literally "the permission of driving". My father drives, says the example. In a live sentence: “پدرم ماشین میراند” — My father drives. Written with the characters م, ا, ش, ی, ن, م, ی, ر, ا, ن, م. A word from the everyday Persian course, level A2.
In short
| Written in Persian | ماشین میرانم |
| Read in Latin letters | mâshin mi-rânam |
| Translation | to drive a car |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | A2 |
Why it looks that way
To drive, to lead: the car is led by the same verb as the horse once was. The license is literally "the permission of driving". My father drives, 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.
- پدرم ماشین میراندpadaram mâshin mi-rânadMy father drives
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 drive a car” in Persian?
«ماشین میرانم», read “mâshin mi-rânam”. In a live sentence: “پدرم ماشین میراند” — My father drives. Phrase, level A2; written with the characters م, ا, ش, ی, ن, م, ی, ر, ا, ن, م.
How is “ماشین میرانم” written in Latin letters?
mâshin mi-rânam. 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 drive, to lead: the car is led by the same verb as the horse once was. The license is literally "the permission of driving". My father drives, 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.