تسلیم شدن
“تسلیم شدن” (taslim shâdan) — to give up, surrender in Persian. Verb, level B1. To fold the hands, admit defeat. "I did not give up" — the negation turns it into a fighting phrase. Despite all the difficulties he did not give up, says the example. In a live sentence: “با همه سختیها تسلیم نشد” — Despite all the difficulties he did not give up. Written with the characters ت, س, ل, ی, م, ش, د, ن.
In short
| Written in Persian | تسلیم شدن |
| Read in Latin letters | taslim shâdan |
| Translation | to give up, surrender |
| Part of speech | verb |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
To fold the hands, admit defeat. "I did not give up" — the negation turns it into a fighting phrase. Despite all the difficulties he did not give up, 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.
- با همه سختیها تسلیم نشدba hamme sakhtihâ taslim nashâdDespite all the difficulties he did not give up
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 give up, surrender” in Persian?
«تسلیم شدن», read “taslim shâdan”. In a live sentence: “با همه سختیها تسلیم نشد” — Despite all the difficulties he did not give up. Verb, level B1; written with the characters ت, س, ل, ی, م, ش, د, ن.
How is “تسلیم شدن” written in Latin letters?
taslim shâdan. 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?
To fold the hands, admit defeat. "I did not give up" — the negation turns it into a fighting phrase. Despite all the difficulties he did not give up, 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.