مجھے بہت بھوک لگی ہے
“مجھے بہت بھوک لگی ہے” (mujhe behot bhuk lagi hai) — I am hungry in Urdu. Phrase, level A1. Literally "a big appetite has attached to me": hunger has no owner here, it attaches. Said by man and woman alike. In a live sentence: “مجھے بہت بھوک لگی ہے، کھانا کہاں ہے؟” — I am very hungry — where is the food? Written with the characters م, ج, ھ, ے, ب, ہ, ت, ب, ھ, و, ک, ل…
In short
| Written in Urdu | مجھے بہت بھوک لگی ہے |
| Read in Latin letters | mujhe behot bhuk lagi hai |
| Translation | I am hungry |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | A1 |
Why it looks that way
Literally "a big appetite has attached to me": hunger has no owner here, it attaches. Said by man and woman alike
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.
- مجھے بہت بھوک لگی ہے، کھانا کہاں ہے؟mujhe behot bhuk lagi hai, khana kahan hai?I am very hungry — where is the food?
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 hungry” in Urdu?
«مجھے بہت بھوک لگی ہے», read “mujhe behot bhuk lagi hai”. In a live sentence: “مجھے بہت بھوک لگی ہے، کھانا کہاں ہے؟” — I am very hungry — where is the food? Phrase, level A1; written with the characters م, ج, ھ, ے, ب, ہ, ت, ب, ھ, و, ک, ل…
How is “مجھے بہت بھوک لگی ہے” written in Latin letters?
mujhe behot bhuk lagi hai. 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 "a big appetite has attached to me": hunger has no owner here, it attaches. Said by man and woman alike. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.