یواش یواش
“یواش یواش” (yuâsh yuâsh) — little by little, slowly in Persian. Adverb, level B1. The doubling for gradualness: softly — and doubled, quite slowly. A habit arrives exactly so. Little by little I get used to the new work, says the example. In a live sentence: “یواش یواش به کار جدید عادت میکنم” — Little by little I get used to the new work. Written with the characters ی, و, ا, ش, ی, و, ا, ش. A word from the everyday Persian course, level B1.
In short
| Written in Persian | یواش یواش |
| Read in Latin letters | yuâsh yuâsh |
| Translation | little by little, slowly |
| Part of speech | adverb |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
The doubling for gradualness: softly — and doubled, quite slowly. A habit arrives exactly so. Little by little I get used to the new work, 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.
- یواش یواش به کار جدید عادت میکنمyuâsh yuâsh be kâre dzhadid âdât mi-kânamLittle by little I get used to the new work
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 “little by little, slowly” in Persian?
«یواش یواش», read “yuâsh yuâsh”. In a live sentence: “یواش یواش به کار جدید عادت میکنم” — Little by little I get used to the new work. Adverb, level B1; written with the characters ی, و, ا, ش, ی, و, ا, ش.
How is “یواش یواش” written in Latin letters?
yuâsh yuâsh. 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 doubling for gradualness: softly — and doubled, quite slowly. A habit arrives exactly so. Little by little I get used to the new work, 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.