میری طبیعت ٹھیک نہیں
“میری طبیعت ٹھیک نہیں” (meri tabiyat thik nahin) — I am unwell in Urdu. Phrase, level A1. Literally "my state is not good": tabiyat is the state of health — do not confuse it with the weather. The answer to "how are you" runs the same way. In a live sentence: “آج میری طبیعت ٹھیک نہیں، سکول نہیں جاؤں گا” — I am unwell today — I will not go to school. A word from the everyday Urdu course, level A1.
In short
| Written in Urdu | میری طبیعت ٹھیک نہیں |
| Read in Latin letters | meri tabiyat thik nahin |
| Translation | I am unwell |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | A1 |
Why it looks that way
Literally "my state is not good": tabiyat is the state of health — do not confuse it with the weather. The answer to "how are you" runs the same way
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.
- آج میری طبیعت ٹھیک نہیں، سکول نہیں جاؤں گاadzh meri tabiyat thik nahin, skul nahin dzhaun gaI am unwell today — I will not go to school
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 “I am unwell” in Urdu?
«میری طبیعت ٹھیک نہیں», read “meri tabiyat thik nahin”. In a live sentence: “آج میری طبیعت ٹھیک نہیں، سکول نہیں جاؤں گا” — I am unwell today — I will not go to school. Phrase, level A1; written with the characters م, ی, ر, ی, ط, ب, ی, ع, ت, ٹ, ھ, ی…
How is “میری طبیعت ٹھیک نہیں” written in Latin letters?
meri tabiyat thik nahin. 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 "my state is not good": tabiyat is the state of health — do not confuse it with the weather. The answer to "how are you" runs the same way. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.