කාර් රෙන්ට් එක
“කාර් රෙන්ට් එක” (kār renṭ eka) — car hire in Sinhala. Noun, level B1. kaar rent e-ka; two English words with a Sinhala tag. In a live sentence: “ළඟම කාර් රෙන්ට් එක කොහෙද?” — Where is the nearest car hire? You can hear how it sounds right here. Written with the characters ක, ා, ර, ්, ර, ෙ, න, ්, ට, ්, එ, ක. A word from the everyday Sinhala course, level B1.
In short
| Written in Sinhala | කාර් රෙන්ට් එක |
| Read in Latin letters | kār renṭ eka |
| Translation | car hire |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | B1 |
- කාර් රෙන්ට් එකkār renṭ ekacar hire
How to pronounce it
kaar rent e-ka; two English words with a Sinhala tag
Why it looks that way
The name of the service and the signboard. The deal itself is said with a verb: 'taking a car for rent'
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.
- ළඟම කාර් රෙන්ට් එක කොහෙද?ḷangama kār renṭ eka koheda?Where is the nearest car hire?
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 “car hire” in Sinhala?
«කාර් රෙන්ට් එක», read “kār renṭ eka”. kaar rent e-ka; two English words with a Sinhala tag. In a live sentence: “ළඟම කාර් රෙන්ට් එක කොහෙද?” — Where is the nearest car hire? You can hear how it sounds right on this page. Noun, level B1; written with the characters ක, ා, ර, ්, ර, ෙ, න, ්, ට, ්, එ, ක.
How is “කාර් රෙන්ට් එක” written in Latin letters?
kār renṭ eka. 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 name of the service and the signboard. The deal itself is said with a verb: 'taking a car for rent'. 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.