روی هوا رفتن
“روی هوا رفتن” (ru-yee hâva reftan) — to fall through, collapse in Persian. Noun, level B1. Literally "to go over the air": the failure word is already taken by the defeat, and here the affair flew into the air — evaporated. A live image of a crash. Our trip fell through, says the example. In a live sentence: “سفرمان روی هوا رفت” — Our trip fell through. Written with the characters ر, و, ی, ه, و, ا, ر, ف, ت, ن.
In short
| Written in Persian | روی هوا رفتن |
| Read in Latin letters | ru-yee hâva reftan |
| Translation | to fall through, collapse |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
Literally "to go over the air": the failure word is already taken by the defeat, and here the affair flew into the air — evaporated. A live image of a crash. Our trip fell through, 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.
- سفرمان روی هوا رفتsafarâman ru-yee hâva reftOur trip fell through
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 fall through, collapse” in Persian?
«روی هوا رفتن», read “ru-yee hâva reftan”. In a live sentence: “سفرمان روی هوا رفت” — Our trip fell through. Noun, level B1; written with the characters ر, و, ی, ه, و, ا, ر, ف, ت, ن.
How is “روی هوا رفتن” written in Latin letters?
ru-yee hâva reftan. 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 "to go over the air": the failure word is already taken by the defeat, and here the affair flew into the air — evaporated. A live image of a crash. Our trip fell through, 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.