Lingoflyඋදේ කෑම කනවා
- උදේ කෑම කනවාudē kǣma kanavāto have breakfast
“උදේ කෑම කනවා” (udē kǣma kanavā) — to have breakfast in Sinhala. Verb, level A1. No verb of its own — people say 'eat the morning meal'. Udē kǣma is breakfast. In a live sentence: “මම හතට උදේ කෑම කනවා” (mama hataṭa udē kǣma kanavā) — I have breakfast at seven. You can hear how it sounds right here. Written with the characters උ, ද, ේ, ක, ෑ, ම, ක, න, ව, ා. A word from the everyday Sinhala course, level A1.
In short
| Written in Sinhala | උදේ කෑම කනවා (udē kǣma kanavā) |
| Read in Latin letters | udē kǣma kanavā |
| Translation | to have breakfast |
| Part of speech | verb |
| Level | A1 |
Why it looks that way
No verb of its own — people say 'eat the morning meal'. Udē kǣma is breakfast
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 “to have breakfast” in Sinhala?
«උදේ කෑම කනවා» (udē kǣma kanavā), read “udē kǣma kanavā”. In a live sentence: “මම හතට උදේ කෑම කනවා” (mama hataṭa udē kǣma kanavā) — I have breakfast at seven. You can hear how it sounds right on this page. Verb, level A1; written with the characters උ, ද, ේ, ක, ෑ, ම, ක, න, ව, ා.
How is “උදේ කෑම කනවා” (udē kǣma kanavā) written in Latin letters?
udē kǣma kanavā. 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?
No verb of its own — people say 'eat the morning meal'. Udē kǣma is breakfast. 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.