صدا را قطع کردن
“صدا را قطع کردن” (sedâ râ gât' kardan) — to mute in Persian. Phrase, level A1. Sound here is not switched off but "cut": the cutting verb you met about talk. Works on advertising too. Mute the ad, says the example. In a live sentence: “صدای تبلیغ را قطع کن.” — Mute the sound of the ad. Written with the characters ص, د, ا, ر, ا, ق, ط, ع, ک, ر, د, ن. A word from the everyday Persian course, level A1.
In short
| Written in Persian | صدا را قطع کردن |
| Read in Latin letters | sedâ râ gât' kardan |
| Translation | to mute |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | A1 |
Why it looks that way
Sound here is not switched off but "cut": the cutting verb you met about talk. Works on advertising too. Mute the ad, 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.
- صدای تبلیغ را قطع کن.sedâye tablig râ gât' kân.Mute the sound of the ad.
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 mute” in Persian?
«صدا را قطع کردن», read “sedâ râ gât' kardan”. In a live sentence: “صدای تبلیغ را قطع کن.” — Mute the sound of the ad. Phrase, level A1; written with the characters ص, د, ا, ر, ا, ق, ط, ع, ک, ر, د, ن.
How is “صدا را قطع کردن” written in Latin letters?
sedâ râ gât' kardan. 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?
Sound here is not switched off but "cut": the cutting verb you met about talk. Works on advertising too. Mute the ad, 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.