پہنچ جانا
“پہنچ جانا” (pahunch dzhana) — to get to in Urdu. Verb, level A1. The same arrival as in "to make it": to arrive is "to reach, having gone". Se will say where you set out from, and the verb at the end puts the full stop. In a live sentence: “ہم دو بجے گھر پہنچ جاتے ہیں” — We get home by two o’clock. Written with the characters پ, ہ, ن, چ, ج, ا, ن, ا. A word from the everyday Urdu course, level A1.
In short
| Written in Urdu | پہنچ جانا |
| Read in Latin letters | pahunch dzhana |
| Translation | to get to |
| Part of speech | verb |
| Level | A1 |
Why it looks that way
The same arrival as in "to make it": to arrive is "to reach, having gone". Se will say where you set out from, and the verb at the end puts the full stop
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.
- ہم دو بجے گھر پہنچ جاتے ہیںhum do badzhe ghar pahunch dzhate hainWe get home by two o’clock
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 “to get to” in Urdu?
«پہنچ جانا», read “pahunch dzhana”. In a live sentence: “ہم دو بجے گھر پہنچ جاتے ہیں” — We get home by two o’clock. Verb, level A1; written with the characters پ, ہ, ن, چ, ج, ا, ن, ا.
How is “پہنچ جانا” written in Latin letters?
pahunch dzhana. 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 same arrival as in "to make it": to arrive is "to reach, having gone". Se will say where you set out from, and the verb at the end puts the full stop. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.