مجھے ڈر لگتا ہے
“مجھے ڈر لگتا ہے” (mujhe dar lagta hai) — I am scared in Urdu. Phrase, level A2. Literally "fear sticks to me": the fear and the sticking. The feeling acts by itself; the person only carries it. In a live sentence: “رات کو مجھے ڈر لگتا ہے” — At night I am scared. Written with the characters م, ج, ھ, ے, ڈ, ر, ل, گ, ت, ا, ہ, ے. A word from the everyday Urdu course, level A2.
In short
| Written in Urdu | مجھے ڈر لگتا ہے |
| Read in Latin letters | mujhe dar lagta hai |
| Translation | I am scared |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | A2 |
Why it looks that way
Literally "fear sticks to me": the fear and the sticking. The feeling acts by itself; the person only carries it
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.
- رات کو مجھے ڈر لگتا ہےrat ko mujhe dar lagta haiAt night I am scared
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 scared” in Urdu?
«مجھے ڈر لگتا ہے», read “mujhe dar lagta hai”. In a live sentence: “رات کو مجھے ڈر لگتا ہے” — At night I am scared. Phrase, level A2; written with the characters م, ج, ھ, ے, ڈ, ر, ل, گ, ت, ا, ہ, ے.
How is “مجھے ڈر لگتا ہے” written in Latin letters?
mujhe dar lagta 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 "fear sticks to me": the fear and the sticking. The feeling acts by itself; the person only carries it. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.