අල්ලපු
“අල්ලපු” (allapu) — adjoining in Sinhala. Adjective, level A2. You know the neighbour and the verb 'to grab'. Allapu means 'joined right up': allapu gedara is the house next door, door to door. In a live sentence: “අල්ලපු ගෙදර ඉන්නේ කවුද?” — Who lives in the adjoining house? You can hear how it sounds right here. Written with the characters අ, ල, ්, ල, ප, ු. A word from the everyday Sinhala course, level A2.
In short
| Written in Sinhala | අල්ලපු |
| Read in Latin letters | allapu |
| Translation | adjoining |
| Part of speech | adjective |
| Level | A2 |
- අල්ලපුallapuadjoining
Why it looks that way
You know the neighbour and the verb 'to grab'. Allapu means 'joined right up': allapu gedara is the house next door, door to door
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.
- අල්ලපු ගෙදර ඉන්නේ කවුද?allapu gedara innē kavuda?Who lives in the adjoining house?
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 “adjoining” in Sinhala?
«අල්ලපු», read “allapu”. In a live sentence: “අල්ලපු ගෙදර ඉන්නේ කවුද?” — Who lives in the adjoining house? You can hear how it sounds right on this page. Adjective, level A2; written with the characters අ, ල, ්, ල, ප, ු.
How is “අල්ලපු” written in Latin letters?
allapu. 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?
You know the neighbour and the verb 'to grab'. Allapu means 'joined right up': allapu gedara is the house next door, door to door. 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.