වැරැද්ද භාර ගන්නවා

In short

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  වැරැද්ද භාර ගන්නවා

  værædda bhāra gannavā

  to admit the mistake

Why it looks that way

Literally 'to take the mistake onto oneself'. The familiar 'to admit' is about what's said aloud; this is about taken responsibility

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.

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  වැරැද්ද භාර ගන්න එක ලේසි නෑ

  værædda bhāra ganna eka lēsi nǣ

  Admitting the mistake is not easy

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 times
  Kim & 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 times
  Adesope, 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 times
  Bertsch et al., 2007, Memory & Cognition 35(2) · 86 studies, 445 comparisons, d = 0.40.

Next

• ආරක්ෂා කරනවා — to defendread “ārakṣā karanavā”
• අවධාරණය කරනවා — to insistread “avadhāraṇaya karanavā”
• ඉල්ලා සිටිනවා — to demandread “illā siṭinavā”
• අපහාස කරනවා — to insultread “apahāsa karanavā”
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