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- எங்க இருந்துeṅga irunduwhere from
“எங்க இருந்து” (eṅga irundu) — where from in Tamil. Adverb, level A1. 'Where' covers place and destination alike. The same 'starting from' turns the question about a place into a question about the start of the journey. At an introduction one asks exactly this — and expects the name of a village in reply. In a live sentence: “நீங்கள் எங்க இருந்து வாறியள்?” (nīṅgaḷ eṅga irundu vāṟiyaḷ) — Where are you coming from? You can hear how it sounds right here. A word from the everyday Tamil course, level A1.
In short
| Written in Tamil | எங்க இருந்து (eṅga irundu) |
| Read in Latin letters | eṅga irundu |
| Translation | where from |
| Part of speech | adverb |
| Level | A1 |
Why it looks that way
'Where' covers place and destination alike. The same 'starting from' turns the question about a place into a question about the start of the journey. At an introduction one asks exactly this — and expects the name of a village in reply
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 “where from” in Tamil?
«எங்க இருந்து» (eṅga irundu), read “eṅga irundu”. In a live sentence: “நீங்கள் எங்க இருந்து வாறியள்?” (nīṅgaḷ eṅga irundu vāṟiyaḷ) — Where are you coming from? You can hear how it sounds right on this page. Adverb, level A1; written with the characters எ, ங, ், க, இ, ர, ு, ந, ், த, ு.
How is “எங்க இருந்து” (eṅga irundu) written in Latin letters?
eṅga irundu. 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?
'Where' covers place and destination alike. The same 'starting from' turns the question about a place into a question about the start of the journey. At an introduction one asks exactly this — and expects the name of a village in reply. 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.