Lingoflyකැෂුවල් ලීව් එක
- කැෂුවල් ලීව් එකkæṣuval līv ekatime off
“කැෂුවල් ලීව් එක” (kæṣuval līv eka) — time off in Sinhala. Noun, level A1. There's no pay for overtime here: one takes a day from one's own stock, and calls it the English casual leave. In a live sentence: “හෙටට කැෂුවල් ලීව් එකක් ගත්තා” (heṭaṭa kæṣuval līv ekak gattā) — I took time off for tomorrow. You can hear how it sounds right here. Written with the characters ක, ැ, ෂ, ු, ව, ල, ්, ල, ී, ව, ්, එ… A word from the everyday Sinhala course, level A1.
In short
| Written in Sinhala | කැෂුවල් ලීව් එක (kæṣuval līv eka) |
| Read in Latin letters | kæṣuval līv eka |
| Translation | time off |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A1 |
Why it looks that way
There's no pay for overtime here: one takes a day from one's own stock, and calls it the English casual leave
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 “time off” in Sinhala?
«කැෂුවල් ලීව් එක» (kæṣuval līv eka), read “kæṣuval līv eka”. In a live sentence: “හෙටට කැෂුවල් ලීව් එකක් ගත්තා” (heṭaṭa kæṣuval līv ekak gattā) — I took time off for tomorrow. You can hear how it sounds right on this page. Noun, level A1; written with the characters ක, ැ, ෂ, ු, ව, ල, ්, ල, ී, ව, ්, එ…
How is “කැෂුවල් ලීව් එක” (kæṣuval līv eka) written in Latin letters?
kæṣuval līv 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?
There's no pay for overtime here: one takes a day from one's own stock, and calls it the English casual leave. 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.