ලෝන් එක ගෙවලා ඉවර කරනවා
“ලෝන් එක ගෙවලා ඉවර කරනවා” (lōn eka gevalā ivara karanavā) — to pay off the loan in Sinhala. Phrase, level B1. Literally 'having paid, to finish': the familiar ivara, end, from 'the battery is dead'. The -lā form links two acts into one. In a live sentence: “මම ලෝන් එක ගෙවලා ඉවර කළා” — I paid off the loan. You can hear how it sounds right here. Written with the characters ල, ෝ, න, ්, එ, ක, ග, ෙ, ව, ල, ා, ඉ.
In short
| Written in Sinhala | ලෝන් එක ගෙවලා ඉවර කරනවා |
| Read in Latin letters | lōn eka gevalā ivara karanavā |
| Translation | to pay off the loan |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | B1 |
- ලෝන් එක ගෙවලා ඉවර කරනවාlōn eka gevalā ivara karanavāto pay off the loan
Why it looks that way
Literally 'having paid, to finish': the familiar ivara, end, from 'the battery is dead'. The -lā form links two acts into one
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.
- මම ලෝන් එක ගෙවලා ඉවර කළාmama lōn eka gevalā ivara kaḷāI paid off the loan
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 pay off the loan” in Sinhala?
«ලෝන් එක ගෙවලා ඉවර කරනවා», read “lōn eka gevalā ivara karanavā”. In a live sentence: “මම ලෝන් එක ගෙවලා ඉවර කළා” — I paid off the loan. You can hear how it sounds right on this page. Phrase, level B1; written with the characters ල, ෝ, න, ්, එ, ක, ග, ෙ, ව, ල, ා, ඉ.
How is “ලෝන් එක ගෙවලා ඉවර කරනවා” written in Latin letters?
lōn eka gevalā ivara karanavā. 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?
Literally 'having paid, to finish': the familiar ivara, end, from 'the battery is dead'. The -lā form links two acts into one. 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.