பணப்பெட்டி

In short

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  பணப்பெட்டி

  paṇappeṭṭi

  strongbox

How to pronounce it

pa-nap-pet-ti; the n is retroflex, the pp and tt are long

Why it looks that way

panam 'money' + petti 'a box, a case'. The safe in a hotel room is called the same

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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  கடவுச்சீட்டை பணப்பெட்டியில வையுங்க

  kaḍavuccīṭṭai paṇappeṭṭiyila vaiyuṅga

  Put the passport in the strongbox

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

• வங்கிக் கடன் — bank loanread “vaṅgik kaḍaṉ”
• கடன் — debtread “kaḍaṉ”
• கடன் வாங்குறேன் — to borrow moneyread “kaḍaṉ vāṅguṟēṉ”
• கடனை திருப்பிக் குடுக்கிறேன் — to pay back the debtread “kaḍaṉai tiruppik kuḍukkiṟēṉ”
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