Lingoflyතාක්ෂණික දෝෂය
- තාක්ෂණික දෝෂයtākṣaṇika dōṣayaa technical glitch
“තාක්ෂණික දෝෂය” (tākṣaṇika dōṣaya) — a technical glitch in Sinhala. Noun, level B1. Literally 'a technical flaw': dōṣaya is a fault, a defect. It is the news and announcement word for a failure of a system, a network or a flight. About a broken device at home they simply say 'it broke'. The look-alike akramikatāva is not a glitch but 'irregularities', usually financial. In a live sentence: “පද්ධතියේ තාක්ෂණික දෝෂයක් තියෙනවා” (paddhatiyē tākṣaṇika dōṣayak tiyenavā) — There's a technical glitch in the system.
In short
| Written in Sinhala | තාක්ෂණික දෝෂය (tākṣaṇika dōṣaya) |
| Read in Latin letters | tākṣaṇika dōṣaya |
| Translation | a technical glitch |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
Literally 'a technical flaw': dōṣaya is a fault, a defect. It is the news and announcement word for a failure of a system, a network or a flight. About a broken device at home they simply say 'it broke'. The look-alike akramikatāva is not a glitch but 'irregularities', usually financial
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.
- පද්ධතියේ තාක්ෂණික දෝෂයක් තියෙනවාpaddhatiyē tākṣaṇika dōṣayak tiyenavāThere's a technical glitch in the system
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 “a technical glitch” in Sinhala?
«තාක්ෂණික දෝෂය» (tākṣaṇika dōṣaya), read “tākṣaṇika dōṣaya”. In a live sentence: “පද්ධතියේ තාක්ෂණික දෝෂයක් තියෙනවා” (paddhatiyē tākṣaṇika dōṣayak tiyenavā) — There's a technical glitch in the system. You can hear how it sounds right on this page. Noun, level B1; written with the characters ත, ා, ක, ්, ෂ, ණ, ි, ක, ද, ෝ, ෂ, ය.
How is “තාක්ෂණික දෝෂය” (tākṣaṇika dōṣaya) written in Latin letters?
tākṣaṇika dōṣaya. 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 'a technical flaw': dōṣaya is a fault, a defect. It is the news and announcement word for a failure of a system, a network or a flight. About a broken device at home they simply say 'it broke'. The look-alike akramikatāva is not a glitch but 'irregularities', usually financial. 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.