سهم شخصی
“سهم شخصی” (sahme shakhsi) — personal contribution in Persian. Phrase, level B1. Literally "one’s own share": your piece of the common cause. The share — and in the talk about sorting waste this word sounds constantly. Everyone has their own personal contribution, says the example. In a live sentence: “هر کس سهم خودش را دارد.” — Everyone has their own personal contribution. Written with the characters س, ه, م, ش, خ, ص, ی. A word from the everyday Persian course, level B1.
In short
| Written in Persian | سهم شخصی |
| Read in Latin letters | sahme shakhsi |
| Translation | personal contribution |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
Literally "one’s own share": your piece of the common cause. The share — and in the talk about sorting waste this word sounds constantly. Everyone has their own personal contribution, 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.
- هر کس سهم خودش را دارد.har kas sahme khudesh râ dârad.Everyone has their own personal contribution.
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 “personal contribution” in Persian?
«سهم شخصی», read “sahme shakhsi”. In a live sentence: “هر کس سهم خودش را دارد.” — Everyone has their own personal contribution. Phrase, level B1; written with the characters س, ه, م, ش, خ, ص, ی.
How is “سهم شخصی” written in Latin letters?
sahme shakhsi. 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 "one’s own share": your piece of the common cause. The share — and in the talk about sorting waste this word sounds constantly. Everyone has their own personal contribution, 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.