குடி மாற்றம்

“குடி மாற்றம்” (kuḍi māṟṟam) — moving house in Tamil. Noun, level A2, topic — home and things. ku-di maat-ram; the ttr is a long doubled roll. In a live sentence: “அடுத்த மாசம் எங்களுக்கு குடி மாற்றம்” — Next month we are moving house. You can hear how it sounds right here. Written with the characters க, ு, ட, ி, ம, ா, ற, ், ற, ம, ். One of 205 words in the set “home and things” in the Tamil course.

Updated September 1, 2026 · Lingofly

In short

“moving house” in Tamil

Written in Tamil	குடி மாற்றம்
Read in Latin letters	kuḍi māṟṟam
Translation	moving house
Part of speech	noun
Level	A2

குடி மாற்றம்
kuḍi māṟṟam
moving house

How to pronounce it

ku-di maat-ram; the ttr is a long doubled roll

Click the word above to hear how it sounds. The sound works on any phone, and nothing needs to be installed.

Why it looks that way

kudi 'dwelling' + maarram 'a change'. The same maru root as in the exchange rate phrase

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.

அடுத்த மாசம் எங்களுக்கு குடி மாற்றம்
aḍutta māsam eṅgaḷukku kuḍi māṟṟam
Next month we are moving house

Nearby words: home and things

Room, key, water, electricity. You will need them on your first day in a rented flat.

Test yourself

Five questions from the same set — “home and things”. Recalling a spelling from meaning is harder than knowing a familiar word on sight, and therefore more useful.

How do you say “moving house” in Tamil?
kudi 'dwelling' + maarram 'a change'. The same maru root as in the exchange rate phrase
How do you say “bathroom” in Tamil?
'Bathing' plus 'room'. The toilet is a separate room and a separate word
How do you say “bag” in Tamil?
Any sack and any bag. The polythene one is 'plastic bag'
How do you say “lift” in Tamil?
The English lift. The bookish word for it is never met in speech
How do you say “kitchen” in Tamil?
'Cooking' plus 'room'

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 times
Kim & 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 times
Adesope, 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 times
Bertsch et al., 2007, Memory & Cognition 35(2) · 86 studies, 445 comparisons, d = 0.40.

Frequently asked

How do you say “moving house” in Tamil?

«குடி மாற்றம்», read “kuḍi māṟṟam”. ku-di maat-ram; the ttr is a long doubled roll. In a live sentence: “அடுத்த மாசம் எங்களுக்கு குடி மாற்றம்” — Next month we are moving house. You can hear how it sounds right on this page. Noun, level A2, from the set “home and things”; written with the characters க, ு, ட, ி, ம, ா, ற, ், ற, ம, ்.

How is “குடி மாற்றம்” written in Latin letters?

kuḍi māṟṟam. 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?

kudi 'dwelling' + maarram 'a change'. The same maru root as in the exchange rate phrase. 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 it 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.