අධ්යක්ෂවරයා
“අධ්යක්ෂවරයා” (adhyakṣavarayā) — film director in Sinhala. Noun, level B1. ad-hyak-sha-va-ra-yaa; the dhya is one syllable. In a live sentence: “මේ ෆිල්ම් එකේ අධ්යක්ෂවරයා ලංකාවේ” — The film director of this film is from Lanka. You can hear how it sounds right here. Written with the characters අ, ධ, ්, ය, ක, ්, ෂ, ව, ර, ය, ා. A word from the everyday Sinhala course, level B1.
In short
| Written in Sinhala | අධ්යක්ෂවරයා |
| Read in Latin letters | adhyakṣavarayā |
| Translation | film director |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | B1 |
- අධ්යක්ෂවරයාadhyakṣavarayāfilm director
How to pronounce it
ad-hyak-sha-va-ra-yaa; the dhya is one syllable
Why it looks that way
The -varayā suffix is the same as on 'teacher': it turns an office into a person. The word fits the head of an institution too
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.
- මේ ෆිල්ම් එකේ අධ්යක්ෂවරයා ලංකාවේmē film ekē adhyakṣavarayā laṁkāvēThe film director of this film is from Lanka
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 “film director” in Sinhala?
«අධ්යක්ෂවරයා», read “adhyakṣavarayā”. ad-hyak-sha-va-ra-yaa; the dhya is one syllable. In a live sentence: “මේ ෆිල්ම් එකේ අධ්යක්ෂවරයා ලංකාවේ” — The film director of this film is from Lanka. You can hear how it sounds right on this page. Noun, level B1; written with the characters අ, ධ, ්, ය, ක, ්, ෂ, ව, ර, ය, ා.
How is “අධ්යක්ෂවරයා” written in Latin letters?
adhyakṣavarayā. 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 -varayā suffix is the same as on 'teacher': it turns an office into a person. The word fits the head of an institution too. 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.