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- வாடகைக் கார் சேவைvāḍagaik kār sēvaicar hire
“வாடகைக் கார் சேவை” (vāḍagaik kār sēvai) — car hire in Tamil. Noun, level B1. The word for 'rent' used for housing serves cars too; sevai is 'a service'. Together: a car rental service. In a live sentence: “யாழ்ப்பாணத்தில வாடகைக் கார் சேவை நிறைய இருக்கு” (yāḻppāṇattila vāḍagaik kār sēvai niṟaiya irukku) — There are many car hire firms in Jaffna. You can hear how it sounds right here.
In short
| Written in Tamil | வாடகைக் கார் சேவை (vāḍagaik kār sēvai) |
| Read in Latin letters | vāḍagaik kār sēvai |
| Translation | car hire |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
The word for 'rent' used for housing serves cars too; sevai is 'a service'. Together: a car rental service
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 “car hire” in Tamil?
«வாடகைக் கார் சேவை» (vāḍagaik kār sēvai), read “vāḍagaik kār sēvai”. In a live sentence: “யாழ்ப்பாணத்தில வாடகைக் கார் சேவை நிறைய இருக்கு” (yāḻppāṇattila vāḍagaik kār sēvai niṟaiya irukku) — There are many car hire firms in Jaffna. You can hear how it sounds right on this page. Noun, level B1; written with the characters வ, ா, ட, க, ை, க, ், க, ா, ர, ், ச…
How is “வாடகைக் கார் சேவை” (vāḍagaik kār sēvai) written in Latin letters?
vāḍagaik kār sēvai. 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?
The word for 'rent' used for housing serves cars too; sevai is 'a service'. Together: a car rental service. 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.