شیر آب چکه میدهد
“شیر آب چکه میدهد” (shire âb chekke mi-dehad) — the tap drips in Persian. Phrase, level A1. The fuller form of the drip: shir-e aab chekke midahad — the water-lion gives drips. In a live sentence: “شیر آب آشپزخانه چکه میدهد” — The kitchen tap drips. Written with the characters ش, ی, ر, آ, ب, چ, ک, ه, م, ی, د, ه… A word from the everyday Persian course, level A1.
In short
| Written in Persian | شیر آب چکه میدهد |
| Read in Latin letters | shire âb chekke mi-dehad |
| Translation | the tap drips |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | A1 |
Why it looks that way
The fuller form of the drip: shir-e aab chekke midahad — the water-lion gives drips
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.
- شیر آب آشپزخانه چکه میدهدshire âb âshpâzkhâne chekke mi-dehadThe kitchen tap drips
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 “the tap drips” in Persian?
«شیر آب چکه میدهد», read “shire âb chekke mi-dehad”. In a live sentence: “شیر آب آشپزخانه چکه میدهد” — The kitchen tap drips. Phrase, level A1; written with the characters ش, ی, ر, آ, ب, چ, ک, ه, م, ی, د, ه…
How is “شیر آب چکه میدهد” written in Latin letters?
shire âb chekke mi-dehad. 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 fuller form of the drip: shir-e aab chekke midahad — the water-lion gives drips. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.