ඉමිග්රේෂන් එක
“ඉමිග්රේෂන් එක” (imigrēṣan eka) — passport control in Sinhala. Noun, level A2. The English immigration — that's both the desk and the whole service. The bookish phrase stands on the sign. In a live sentence: “ඉමිග්රේෂන් එකේ පෝලිම දිගයි” — The queue at passport control is long. You can hear how it sounds right here. Written with the characters ඉ, ම, ි, ග, ්, ර, ේ, ෂ, න, ්, එ, ක. A word from the everyday Sinhala course, level A2.
In short
| Written in Sinhala | ඉමිග්රේෂන් එක |
| Read in Latin letters | imigrēṣan eka |
| Translation | passport control |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A2 |
- ඉමිග්රේෂන් එකimigrēṣan ekapassport control
Why it looks that way
The English immigration — that's both the desk and the whole service. The bookish phrase stands on the sign
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.
- ඉමිග්රේෂන් එකේ පෝලිම දිගයිimigrēṣan ekē pōlima digayiThe queue at passport control is long
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 “passport control” in Sinhala?
«ඉමිග්රේෂන් එක», read “imigrēṣan eka”. In a live sentence: “ඉමිග්රේෂන් එකේ පෝලිම දිගයි” — The queue at passport control is long. You can hear how it sounds right on this page. Noun, level A2; written with the characters ඉ, ම, ි, ග, ්, ර, ේ, ෂ, න, ්, එ, ක.
How is “ඉමිග්රේෂන් එක” written in Latin letters?
imigrēṣan 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 English immigration — that's both the desk and the whole service. The bookish phrase stands on the sign. 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.