لائف جیکٹ
“لائف جیکٹ” (laif dzheket) — life jacket in Urdu. Noun, level B1. An international word written in the local script. The boatmen hand it over unasked — the rule of river and sea. In a live sentence: “کشتی میں لائف جیکٹ ہے” — There is a life jacket in the boat. Written with the characters ل, ا, ف, ج, ی, ک, ٹ. A word from the everyday Urdu course, level B1.
In short
| Written in Urdu | لائف جیکٹ |
| Read in Latin letters | laif dzheket |
| Translation | life jacket |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
An international word written in the local script. The boatmen hand it over unasked — the rule of river and sea
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.
- کشتی میں لائف جیکٹ ہےkashti main laif dzheket haiThere is a life jacket in the boat
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 “life jacket” in Urdu?
«لائف جیکٹ», read “laif dzheket”. In a live sentence: “کشتی میں لائف جیکٹ ہے” — There is a life jacket in the boat. Noun, level B1; written with the characters ل, ا, ف, ج, ی, ک, ٹ.
How is “لائف جیکٹ” written in Latin letters?
laif dzheket. 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?
An international word written in the local script. The boatmen hand it over unasked — the rule of river and sea. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.