කාර් එක එළවනවා
“කාර් එක එළවනවා” (kār eka eḷavanavā) — to drive in Sinhala. Phrase, level A2. kaar e-ka e-la-va-na-vaa; the ḷ is the curled-tongue l. In a live sentence: “මට කාර් එක එළවන්න පුළුවන්” — I can drive. You can hear how it sounds right here. Written with the characters ක, ා, ර, ්, එ, ක, එ, ළ, ව, න, ව, ා. A word from the everyday Sinhala course, level A2.
In short
| Written in Sinhala | කාර් එක එළවනවා |
| Read in Latin letters | kār eka eḷavanavā |
| Translation | to drive |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | A2 |
- කාර් එක එළවනවාkār eka eḷavanavāto drive
How to pronounce it
kaar e-ka e-la-va-na-vaa; the ḷ is the curled-tongue l
Why it looks that way
The verb is 'to drive along': it drives a car and cattle alike. The young say the English drive
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.
- මට කාර් එක එළවන්න පුළුවන්maṭa kār eka eḷavanna puḷuvanI can drive
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 drive” in Sinhala?
«කාර් එක එළවනවා», read “kār eka eḷavanavā”. kaar e-ka e-la-va-na-vaa; the ḷ is the curled-tongue l. In a live sentence: “මට කාර් එක එළවන්න පුළුවන්” — I can drive. You can hear how it sounds right on this page. Phrase, level A2; written with the characters ක, ා, ර, ්, එ, ක, එ, ළ, ව, න, ව, ා.
How is “කාර් එක එළවනවා” written in Latin letters?
kār eka eḷavanavā. 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 verb is 'to drive along': it drives a car and cattle alike. The young say the English drive. 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.