Lingoflyකාඩ් එකෙන් ගෙවීම
- කාඩ් එකෙන් ගෙවීමkāḍ eken gevīmacard payment
“කාඩ් එකෙන් ගෙවීම” (kāḍ eken gevīma) — card payment in Sinhala. Noun, level A2. The ending -en means 'by means of': 'by card', 'in cash' — same tail. In a live sentence: “මෙතන කාඩ් එකෙන් ගෙවීම තියෙනවද?” (metana kāḍ eken gevīma tiyenavada) — Do you take card payment? You can hear how it sounds right here. Written with the characters ක, ා, ඩ, ්, එ, ක, ෙ, න, ්, ග, ෙ, ව… A word from the everyday Sinhala course, level A2.
In short
| Written in Sinhala | කාඩ් එකෙන් ගෙවීම (kāḍ eken gevīma) |
| Read in Latin letters | kāḍ eken gevīma |
| Translation | card payment |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A2 |
Why it looks that way
The ending -en means 'by means of': 'by card', 'in cash' — same tail
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 “card payment” in Sinhala?
«කාඩ් එකෙන් ගෙවීම» (kāḍ eken gevīma), read “kāḍ eken gevīma”. In a live sentence: “මෙතන කාඩ් එකෙන් ගෙවීම තියෙනවද?” (metana kāḍ eken gevīma tiyenavada) — Do you take card payment? You can hear how it sounds right on this page. Noun, level A2; written with the characters ක, ා, ඩ, ්, එ, ක, ෙ, න, ්, ග, ෙ, ව…
How is “කාඩ් එකෙන් ගෙවීම” (kāḍ eken gevīma) written in Latin letters?
kāḍ eken gevīma. 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 ending -en means 'by means of': 'by card', 'in cash' — same tail. 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.