اسکرین پر انگلی چلانا
“اسکرین پر انگلی چلانا” (skrin per ungli chalana) — to swipe in Urdu. Phrase, level A1. Literally "to walk a finger over the screen": the screen and the finger you met, and the on stands after the word. Lists are scrolled top-down here. In a live sentence: “اسکرین پر انگلی چلاؤ” — Swipe the screen. Written with the characters ا, س, ک, ر, ی, ن, پ, ر, ا, ن, گ, ل… A word from the everyday Urdu course, level A1.
In short
| Written in Urdu | اسکرین پر انگلی چلانا |
| Read in Latin letters | skrin per ungli chalana |
| Translation | to swipe |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | A1 |
Why it looks that way
Literally "to walk a finger over the screen": the screen and the finger you met, and the on stands after the word. Lists are scrolled top-down here
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.
- اسکرین پر انگلی چلاؤskrin per ungli chalaoSwipe the screen
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 swipe” in Urdu?
«اسکرین پر انگلی چلانا», read “skrin per ungli chalana”. In a live sentence: “اسکرین پر انگلی چلاؤ” — Swipe the screen. Phrase, level A1; written with the characters ا, س, ک, ر, ی, ن, پ, ر, ا, ن, گ, ل…
How is “اسکرین پر انگلی چلانا” written in Latin letters?
skrin per ungli chalana. 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 walk a finger over the screen": the screen and the finger you met, and the on stands after the word. Lists are scrolled top-down here. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.