راستے میں چھوڑ دینا
“راستے میں چھوڑ دینا” (raste main chhor dena) — to give up halfway in Urdu. Phrase, level B1. Literally "to drop on the way": the dropping you met at the umbrella. In a live sentence: “کورس راستے میں چھوڑ دینا اچھا نہیں” — He gave up halfway. Written with the characters ر, ا, س, ت, ے, م, ی, ں, چ, ھ, و, ڑ… A word from the everyday Urdu course, level B1.
In short
| Written in Urdu | راستے میں چھوڑ دینا |
| Read in Latin letters | raste main chhor dena |
| Translation | to give up halfway |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
Literally "to drop on the way": the dropping you met at the umbrella
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.
- کورس راستے میں چھوڑ دینا اچھا نہیںkurs raste main chhor dena achchha nahinHe gave up halfway
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 give up halfway” in Urdu?
«راستے میں چھوڑ دینا», read “raste main chhor dena”. In a live sentence: “کورس راستے میں چھوڑ دینا اچھا نہیں” — He gave up halfway. Phrase, level B1; written with the characters ر, ا, س, ت, ے, م, ی, ں, چ, ھ, و, ڑ…
How is “راستے میں چھوڑ دینا” written in Latin letters?
raste main chhor dena. 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 "to drop on the way": the dropping you met at the umbrella. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.