බෝල්ට් එක
“බෝල්ට් එක” (bōlṭ eka) — bolt in Sinhala. Noun, level A1. You know the screw that goes into wood. Sinhala doesn't separate the bolt with its nut from it, and in the workshop it goes by its English name; the nut is 'the nut eka'. In a live sentence: “බෝල්ට් එක තදට කරන්න” — Tighten the bolt. You can hear how it sounds right here. Written with the characters බ, ෝ, ල, ්, ට, ්, එ, ක.
In short
| Written in Sinhala | බෝල්ට් එක |
| Read in Latin letters | bōlṭ eka |
| Translation | bolt |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A1 |
- බෝල්ට් එකbōlṭ ekabolt
Why it looks that way
You know the screw that goes into wood. Sinhala doesn't separate the bolt with its nut from it, and in the workshop it goes by its English name; the nut is 'the nut eka'
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.
- බෝල්ට් එක තදට කරන්නbōlṭ eka tadaṭa karannaTighten the bolt
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 “bolt” in Sinhala?
«බෝල්ට් එක», read “bōlṭ eka”. In a live sentence: “බෝල්ට් එක තදට කරන්න” — Tighten the bolt. You can hear how it sounds right on this page. Noun, level A1; written with the characters බ, ෝ, ල, ්, ට, ්, එ, ක.
How is “බෝල්ට් එක” written in Latin letters?
bōlṭ eka. 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?
You know the screw that goes into wood. Sinhala doesn't separate the bolt with its nut from it, and in the workshop it goes by its English name; the nut is 'the nut eka'. 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 it 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.