پیانو زدن
“پیانو زدن” (piânâ zadan) — to play the piano in Persian. Phrase, level A1. On instruments one plays by "strikes" here: strike the keys. You already struck talk in conversation and the bell in a call. My daughter plays, says the example. In a live sentence: “دخترم پیانو میزند.” — My daughter plays the piano. Written with the characters پ, ی, ا, ن, و, ز, د, ن. A word from the everyday Persian course, level A1.
In short
| Written in Persian | پیانو زدن |
| Read in Latin letters | piânâ zadan |
| Translation | to play the piano |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | A1 |
Why it looks that way
On instruments one plays by "strikes" here: strike the keys. You already struck talk in conversation and the bell in a call. My daughter plays, 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.
- دخترم پیانو میزند.dâkhtaram piânâ mi-zânad.My daughter plays the piano.
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 play the piano” in Persian?
«پیانو زدن», read “piânâ zadan”. In a live sentence: “دخترم پیانو میزند.” — My daughter plays the piano. Phrase, level A1; written with the characters پ, ی, ا, ن, و, ز, د, ن.
How is “پیانو زدن” written in Latin letters?
piânâ zadan. 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?
On instruments one plays by "strikes" here: strike the keys. You already struck talk in conversation and the bell in a call. My daughter plays, 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.