شرمنده میشم
“شرمنده میشم” (sharmânde mi-sham) — I feel awkward asking, sorry to bother in Persian. Phrase, level B1. The shamed one: one is ashamed here where at home one is "awkward". A request with it is doubly polite: to ask is to be obliged. I feel awkward, but I need help, says the example. In a live sentence: “شرمنده میشم، ولی کمک میخوام” — I feel awkward, but I need help. Written with the characters ش, ر, م, ن, د, ه, م, ی, ش, م.
In short
| Written in Persian | شرمنده میشم |
| Read in Latin letters | sharmânde mi-sham |
| Translation | I feel awkward asking, sorry to bother |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
The shamed one: one is ashamed here where at home one is "awkward". A request with it is doubly polite: to ask is to be obliged. I feel awkward, but I need help, 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.
- شرمنده میشم، ولی کمک میخوامsharmânde mi-sham, vali kâmak mi-khâmI feel awkward, but I need help
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 “I feel awkward asking, sorry to bother” in Persian?
«شرمنده میشم», read “sharmânde mi-sham”. In a live sentence: “شرمنده میشم، ولی کمک میخوام” — I feel awkward, but I need help. Phrase, level B1; written with the characters ش, ر, م, ن, د, ه, م, ی, ش, م.
How is “شرمنده میشم” written in Latin letters?
sharmânde mi-sham. 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?
The shamed one: one is ashamed here where at home one is "awkward". A request with it is doubly polite: to ask is to be obliged. I feel awkward, but I need help, 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.