අඩක් හදපු කැබැල්ල
“අඩක් හදපු කැබැල්ල” (aḍak hadapu kæbælla) — blank in Sinhala. Noun, level B1. Literally 'a half-made piece': Sinhala has no word for it, and in the shop floor they say it by description. Kitchen preserves for winter are another matter and another word. In a live sentence: “අඩක් හදපු කැබැල්ල මැෂිමට දාන්න” — Put the blank into the machine tool. You can hear how it sounds right here. Written with the characters අ, ඩ, ක, ්, හ, ද, ප, ු, ක, ැ, බ, ැ.
In short
| Written in Sinhala | අඩක් හදපු කැබැල්ල |
| Read in Latin letters | aḍak hadapu kæbælla |
| Translation | blank |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | B1 |
- අඩක් හදපු කැබැල්ලaḍak hadapu kæbællablank
Why it looks that way
Literally 'a half-made piece': Sinhala has no word for it, and in the shop floor they say it by description. Kitchen preserves for winter are another matter and another word
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.
- අඩක් හදපු කැබැල්ල මැෂිමට දාන්නaḍak hadapu kæbælla mæṣimaṭa dānnaPut the blank into the machine tool
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 “blank” in Sinhala?
«අඩක් හදපු කැබැල්ල», read “aḍak hadapu kæbælla”. In a live sentence: “අඩක් හදපු කැබැල්ල මැෂිමට දාන්න” — Put the blank into the machine tool. You can hear how it sounds right on this page. Noun, level B1; written with the characters අ, ඩ, ක, ්, හ, ද, ප, ු, ක, ැ, බ, ැ.
How is “අඩක් හදපු කැබැල්ල” written in Latin letters?
aḍak hadapu kæbælla. 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 'a half-made piece': Sinhala has no word for it, and in the shop floor they say it by description. Kitchen preserves for winter are another matter and another word. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.
Can I hear how it sounds?
Yes, right on this page: click the word and it will play. The sound works on any phone, and nothing needs to be installed.