වීසා එක නොදුන්න එක
“වීසා එක නොදුන්න එක” (vīsā eka nodunna eka) — the visa refusal in Sinhala. Noun, level B1. Literally 'the not-giving of the visa': the negation no- glues onto the participle, and eka turns it all into a noun. The consulate letter prints the bookish 'was rejected'. In a live sentence: “වීසා එක නොදුන්න එකට හේතුවක් කිව්වේ නෑ” — No reason was given for the visa refusal. You can hear how it sounds right here. A word from the everyday Sinhala course, level B1.
In short
| Written in Sinhala | වීසා එක නොදුන්න එක |
| Read in Latin letters | vīsā eka nodunna eka |
| Translation | the visa refusal |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | B1 |
- වීසා එක නොදුන්න එකvīsā eka nodunna ekathe visa refusal
Why it looks that way
Literally 'the not-giving of the visa': the negation no- glues onto the participle, and eka turns it all into a noun. The consulate letter prints the bookish 'was rejected'
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.
- වීසා එක නොදුන්න එකට හේතුවක් කිව්වේ නෑvīsā eka nodunna ekaṭa hētuvak kivvē nǣNo reason was given for the visa refusal
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 “the visa refusal” in Sinhala?
«වීසා එක නොදුන්න එක», read “vīsā eka nodunna eka”. In a live sentence: “වීසා එක නොදුන්න එකට හේතුවක් කිව්වේ නෑ” — No reason was given for the visa refusal. You can hear how it sounds right on this page. Noun, level B1; written with the characters ව, ී, ස, ා, එ, ක, න, ො, ද, ු, න, ්.
How is “වීසා එක නොදුන්න එක” written in Latin letters?
vīsā eka nodunna 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?
Literally 'the not-giving of the visa': the negation no- glues onto the participle, and eka turns it all into a noun. The consulate letter prints the bookish 'was rejected'. 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.