آئس باکس
“آئس باکس” (ais baks) — freezer in Urdu. Noun, level A1. The freezer word stayed with the big freezing chest, which you know. The icebox is the drawer for ice: ice and ice cream live there. In a live sentence: “آئس باکس میں برف ہمیشہ ہوتی ہے” — There is always ice in the freezer. Written with the characters آ, س, ب, ا, ک, س. A word from the everyday Urdu course, level A1.
In short
| Written in Urdu | آئس باکس |
| Read in Latin letters | ais baks |
| Translation | freezer |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A1 |
Why it looks that way
The freezer word stayed with the big freezing chest, which you know. The icebox is the drawer for ice: ice and ice cream live there
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.
- آئس باکس میں برف ہمیشہ ہوتی ہےais baks main barf hamisha hoti haiThere is always ice in the freezer
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 “freezer” in Urdu?
«آئس باکس», read “ais baks”. In a live sentence: “آئس باکس میں برف ہمیشہ ہوتی ہے” — There is always ice in the freezer. Noun, level A1; written with the characters آ, س, ب, ا, ک, س.
How is “آئس باکس” written in Latin letters?
ais baks. 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 freezer word stayed with the big freezing chest, which you know. The icebox is the drawer for ice: ice and ice cream live there. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.