Lingoflyකෝපි බ්රේක් එක
- කෝපි බ්රේක් එකkōpi brēk ekacoffee break
“කෝපි බ්රේක් එක” (kōpi brēk eka) — coffee break in Sinhala. Noun, level A1. 'The break eka' is a break. On the island it's tea that gets drunk in it, so people say 'tea break' more often. In a live sentence: “කෝපි බ්රේක් එක විනාඩි පහළොවයි” (kōpi brēk eka vināḍi pahaḷovayi) — The coffee break is fifteen minutes. You can hear how it sounds right here. Written with the characters ක, ෝ, ප, ි, බ, ්, ර, ේ, ක, ්, එ, ක.
In short
| Written in Sinhala | කෝපි බ්රේක් එක (kōpi brēk eka) |
| Read in Latin letters | kōpi brēk eka |
| Translation | coffee break |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A1 |
Why it looks that way
'The break eka' is a break. On the island it's tea that gets drunk in it, so people say 'tea break' more often
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.
- කෝපි බ්රේක් එක විනාඩි පහළොවයිkōpi brēk eka vināḍi pahaḷovayiThe coffee break is fifteen minutes
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 “coffee break” in Sinhala?
«කෝපි බ්රේක් එක» (kōpi brēk eka), read “kōpi brēk eka”. In a live sentence: “කෝපි බ්රේක් එක විනාඩි පහළොවයි” (kōpi brēk eka vināḍi pahaḷovayi) — The coffee break is fifteen minutes. You can hear how it sounds right on this page. Noun, level A1; written with the characters ක, ෝ, ප, ි, බ, ්, ර, ේ, ක, ්, එ, ක.
How is “කෝපි බ්රේක් එක” (kōpi brēk eka) written in Latin letters?
kōpi brēk 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?
'The break eka' is a break. On the island it's tea that gets drunk in it, so people say 'tea break' more often. 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.