پیسے کافی ہیں
“پیسے کافی ہیں” (pise kafi hain) — the money is enough in Urdu. Phrase, level A2. The enough you met at the counter. Enough is said of money, time and salt alike. In a live sentence: “کتنے پیسے کافی ہیں؟” — How much money is enough? Written with the characters پ, ی, س, ے, ک, ا, ف, ی, ہ, ی, ں. A word from the everyday Urdu course, level A2.
In short
| Written in Urdu | پیسے کافی ہیں |
| Read in Latin letters | pise kafi hain |
| Translation | the money is enough |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | A2 |
Why it looks that way
The enough you met at the counter. Enough is said of money, time and salt 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.
- کتنے پیسے کافی ہیں؟kitne pise kafi hain?How much money is enough?
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 “the money is enough” in Urdu?
«پیسے کافی ہیں», read “pise kafi hain”. In a live sentence: “کتنے پیسے کافی ہیں؟” — How much money is enough? Phrase, level A2; written with the characters پ, ی, س, ے, ک, ا, ف, ی, ہ, ی, ں.
How is “پیسے کافی ہیں” written in Latin letters?
pise kafi hain. 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?
The enough you met at the counter. Enough is said of money, time and salt alike. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.