خوش آمدید
“خوش آمدید” (khush amdid) — you are welcome in Urdu. Phrase, level A0, topic — polite words. Literally "welcome", but as the answer to thank you it is the same "don’t mention it": the host you stayed with will say exactly this. Next to it you already know koi baat nahin. In a live sentence: “شکریہ! — خوش آمدید” — Thank you! — You are welcome. Written with the characters خ, و, ش, آ, م, د, ی, د.
In short
| Written in Urdu | خوش آمدید |
| Read in Latin letters | khush amdid |
| Translation | you are welcome |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | A0 |
Why it looks that way
Literally "welcome", but as the answer to thank you it is the same "don’t mention it": the host you stayed with will say exactly this. Next to it you already know koi baat nahin
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.
- شکریہ! — خوش آمدیدshukriya! — khush amdidThank you! — You are welcome
Nearby words: polite words
“Thank you”, “please” and “sorry” carry you while the rest of the words are still missing: with them even a gesture reads as a request rather than a demand.
- شکریہshukriyathank youLiterally "gratitude". The all-purpose polite form; turn it up a notch with bohat shukriya — thank you very much
- مہربانیmeharbanipleaseLiterally "through mercy" — from meharban, merciful. It closes a request, sitting at the end of the line exactly where please does
- کوئی بات نہیںkoy bat nahinyou are welcomeLiterally "there is nothing to talk of": baat is a word, a matter. The whole thank-you-and-don’t-mention-it exchange closes with this one phrase
- آپapyou (polite)The polite you — and to one person as well: the same solution as French vous. With aap the verb takes the they-form
- معاف کیجیےmaaf kidzhiyeexcuse meLiterally "grant forgiveness": the you-form of courtesy. Both the "sorry" before a question and the way to hail a shopkeeper
- مجھے … دیجیےmujhe … didzhiyegive meLiterally "to me … give": a command in the you-form — polite even at a street stall. Dijiye carries a breath in its middle
- ذرا انتظار کیجیےzara intizar kidzhiyewait a momentLiterally "a little waiting do": zara — just a bit — and intezar — the waiting. The polite kijiye you know from maaf kijiye
Test yourself
Five questions from the same set — “polite words”. Recalling a spelling from meaning is harder than knowing a familiar word on sight, and therefore more useful.
- How do you say “you are welcome” in Urdu?
Literally "welcome", but as the answer to thank you it is the same "don’t mention it": the host you stayed with will say exactly this. Next to it you already know koi baat nahin
- How do you say “wait a moment” in Urdu?
Literally "a little waiting do": zara — just a bit — and intezar — the waiting. The polite kijiye you know from maaf kijiye
- How do you say “give me” in Urdu?
Literally "to me … give": a command in the you-form — polite even at a street stall. Dijiye carries a breath in its middle
- How do you say “excuse me” in Urdu?
Literally "grant forgiveness": the you-form of courtesy. Both the "sorry" before a question and the way to hail a shopkeeper
- How do you say “you (polite)” in Urdu?
The polite you — and to one person as well: the same solution as French vous. With aap the verb takes the they-form
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 “you are welcome” in Urdu?
«خوش آمدید», read “khush amdid”. In a live sentence: “شکریہ! — خوش آمدید” — Thank you! — You are welcome. Phrase, level A0, from the set “polite words”; written with the characters خ, و, ش, آ, م, د, ی, د.
How is “خوش آمدید” written in Latin letters?
khush amdid. 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 "welcome", but as the answer to thank you it is the same "don’t mention it": the host you stayed with will say exactly this. Next to it you already know koi baat nahin. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.