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සමානාර්ථ පද​​ : preceding , antecedent , previous , prior , earlier , ancient , bygone , anterior
  f;are​ï:
a    ඉහතකී
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a    පුරාණ
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a    පුරිම
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a    පූර්ව
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a    පෙර
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pron    මුලින් කී තැනැත්තා
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pron    මුලින් කී දෙය
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a    යට ගිය
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Phy    හැඩකරය
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Art    හැඩමල
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a    හිටපු
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  උදාහරණ
පළමුවැන්න දෙවැන්නකට වඩා හොඳයි.
The former is better than the latter.

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කලින් වාරයේදී කම්මැලි වීම ගැන ඔහු කනගාටු විය.
He regretted having been lazy in the former term.

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අසනීපයෙන් පසු ඇය ඇගේ පෙර ආත්මයේ සෙවනැල්ලක් පමණක් විය.
She was only a shadow of her former self after her illness.

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සමාගම එහි හිටපු ගණකාධිකාරීවරයාට එරෙහිව පියවර ගත්තා.
The company took action against its former accountant.

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ඔහු හිටපු විශ්වවිද්‍යාල මහාචාර්යවරයෙක් සහ පර්යේෂකයෙක් විය.
He was a former university professor and researcher.

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  ඉංග්‍රීසි තේරුම්:

(adj) - referring to the first of two things or persons mentioned (or the earlier one or ones of several)
(adj) - belonging to the distant past
(adj) - belonging to some prior time
(adj) - (used especially of persons) of the immediate past
(noun) - the first of two or the first mentioned of two
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