பரிதாபப்படுறேன்

In short

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  பரிதாபப்படுறேன்

  paridābappaḍuṟēṉ

  to feel sorry for someone

Why it looks that way

From paridhaabam, 'pity'. The one pitied stands with the 'on' ending: 'I feel pity on him'

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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  அந்த பிச்சைக்காரர்மேல நான் பரிதாபப்பட்டேன்

  anda piccaikkārarmēla nāṉ paridābappaṭṭēṉ

  I felt sorry for that beggar

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.

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• தைரியமா இரு — stay strongread “tairiyamā iru”
• நான் உன்னோட இருக்கிறேன் — I am here for youread “nāṉ uṉṉōḍa irukkiṟēṉ”
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