Lingoflyනරක පුරුද්ද
- නරක පුරුද්දnaraka puruddabad habit
“නරක පුරුද්ද” (naraka purudda) — bad habit in Sinhala. Noun, level B1. Purudda, 'habit', with naraka, 'bad'. Sinhala says 'bad', not 'harmful'; they also say 'a wrong habit'. In a live sentence: “රෑ බෝ වෙනකම් ෆෝන් එක බලන එක නරක පුරුද්දක්” (rǣ bō venakam fōn eka balana eka naraka puruddak) — Looking at the phone until night is a bad habit. You can hear how it sounds right here. Written with the characters න, ර, ක, ප, ු, ර, ු, ද, ්, ද.
In short
| Written in Sinhala | නරක පුරුද්ද (naraka purudda) |
| Read in Latin letters | naraka purudda |
| Translation | bad habit |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
Purudda, 'habit', with naraka, 'bad'. Sinhala says 'bad', not 'harmful'; they also say 'a wrong habit'
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.
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 “bad habit” in Sinhala?
«නරක පුරුද්ද» (naraka purudda), read “naraka purudda”. In a live sentence: “රෑ බෝ වෙනකම් ෆෝන් එක බලන එක නරක පුරුද්දක්” (rǣ bō venakam fōn eka balana eka naraka puruddak) — Looking at the phone until night is a bad habit. You can hear how it sounds right on this page. Noun, level B1; written with the characters න, ර, ක, ප, ු, ර, ු, ද, ්, ද.
How is “නරක පුරුද්ද” (naraka purudda) written in Latin letters?
naraka purudda. 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?
Purudda, 'habit', with naraka, 'bad'. Sinhala says 'bad', not 'harmful'; they also say 'a wrong habit'. 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 this 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.