பாதியில விட்டிட்டேன்

In short

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  பாதியில விட்டிட்டேன்

  pādiyila viṭṭiṭṭēṉ

  to give up halfway

Why it looks that way

paadhi 'a half' and vidu, 'to leave'. The same vidu sits in 'give in' — a verb of wide reach

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.

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  நான் அந்த வகுப்பை பாதியில விட்டிட்டேன்

  nāṉ anda vaguppai pādiyila viṭṭiṭṭēṉ

  I gave up that course halfway

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.

Next

• படிப்படியா — step by stepread “paḍippaḍiyā”
• ஒவ்வொரு தரமும் நல்லா வருது — better every timeread “ovvoru taramum nallā varudu”
• கிட்டத்தட்ட புரிஞ்சிட்டுது — I almost understoodread “kiṭṭattaṭṭa puriñciṭṭudu”
• எனக்கு இன்னும் பயிற்சி வேணும் — I need more practiceread “eṉakku iṉṉum payiṟci vēṇum”
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