වෛද්ය පරීක්ෂාව
“වෛද්ය පරීක්ෂාව” (vaidya parīkṣāva) — medical checkup in Sinhala. Noun, level B1. vaid-ya pa-riik-shaa-va; the ksha is one motion. In a live sentence: “අවුරුද්දකට වතාවක් වෛද්ය පරීක්ෂාවක් කරන්න” — Once a year get a medical checkup. You can hear how it sounds right here. Written with the characters ව, ෛ, ද, ්, ය, ප, ර, ී, ක, ්, ෂ, ා. A word from the everyday Sinhala course, level B1.
In short
| Written in Sinhala | වෛද්ය පරීක්ෂාව |
| Read in Latin letters | vaidya parīkṣāva |
| Translation | medical checkup |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | B1 |
- වෛද්ය පරීක්ෂාවvaidya parīkṣāvamedical checkup
How to pronounce it
vaid-ya pa-riik-shaa-va; the ksha is one motion
Why it looks that way
The familiar 'check' with the doctor's word. A one-time test is the familiar blood check
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.
- අවුරුද්දකට වතාවක් වෛද්ය පරීක්ෂාවක් කරන්නavuruddakaṭa vatāvak vaidya parīkṣāvak karannaOnce a year get a medical checkup
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 “medical checkup” in Sinhala?
«වෛද්ය පරීක්ෂාව», read “vaidya parīkṣāva”. vaid-ya pa-riik-shaa-va; the ksha is one motion. In a live sentence: “අවුරුද්දකට වතාවක් වෛද්ය පරීක්ෂාවක් කරන්න” — Once a year get a medical checkup. You can hear how it sounds right on this page. Noun, level B1; written with the characters ව, ෛ, ද, ්, ය, ප, ර, ී, ක, ්, ෂ, ා.
How is “වෛද්ය පරීක්ෂාව” written in Latin letters?
vaidya parīkṣāva. 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 familiar 'check' with the doctor's word. A one-time test is the familiar blood check. 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.