دل کو چھونے والی
“دل کو چھونے والی” (dil ko chhune wali) — moving (touching) in Urdu. Adverb, level B1. Literally "the heart-touching one": the film that wet the eyes. In a live sentence: “دادی کی کہانی دل کو چھونے والی تھی” — It is a moving story about mothers. Written with the characters د, ل, ک, و, چ, ھ, و, ن, ے, و, ا, ل… A word from the everyday Urdu course, level B1.
In short
| Written in Urdu | دل کو چھونے والی |
| Read in Latin letters | dil ko chhune wali |
| Translation | moving (touching) |
| Part of speech | adverb |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
Literally "the heart-touching one": the film that wet the eyes
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.
- دادی کی کہانی دل کو چھونے والی تھیdadi ki kahani dil ko chhune wali thiIt is a moving story about mothers
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 “moving (touching)” in Urdu?
«دل کو چھونے والی», read “dil ko chhune wali”. In a live sentence: “دادی کی کہانی دل کو چھونے والی تھی” — It is a moving story about mothers. Adverb, level B1; written with the characters د, ل, ک, و, چ, ھ, و, ن, ے, و, ا, ل…
How is “دل کو چھونے والی” written in Latin letters?
dil ko chhune wali. 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?
Literally "the heart-touching one": the film that wet the eyes. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.