کہہ دینا
“کہہ دینا” (keh dena) — to reply in Urdu. Verb, level A1. A short answer aloud: the familiar saying plus giving — to say and hand over. "Tell him" — and the talk is over. In a live sentence: “میں نے پہلے ہی کہہ دیا تھا۔” — I had already replied after all. Written with the characters ک, ہ, ہ, د, ی, ن, ا. A word from the everyday Urdu course, level A1.
In short
| Written in Urdu | کہہ دینا |
| Read in Latin letters | keh dena |
| Translation | to reply |
| Part of speech | verb |
| Level | A1 |
Why it looks that way
A short answer aloud: the familiar saying plus giving — to say and hand over. "Tell him" — and the talk is over
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.
- میں نے پہلے ہی کہہ دیا تھا۔main ne pehle hi keh diya tha.I had already replied after all
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 reply” in Urdu?
«کہہ دینا», read “keh dena”. In a live sentence: “میں نے پہلے ہی کہہ دیا تھا۔” — I had already replied after all. Verb, level A1; written with the characters ک, ہ, ہ, د, ی, ن, ا.
How is “کہہ دینا” written in Latin letters?
keh dena. 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?
A short answer aloud: the familiar saying plus giving — to say and hand over. "Tell him" — and the talk is over. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.