ෆස්ට් එඩ් බොක්ස් එක
“ෆස්ට් එඩ් බොක්ස් එක” (fasṭ eḍ boks eka) — first aid kit in Sinhala. Noun, level A2. English first aid box. The bookish phrase is written on the office box itself. In a live sentence: “කාර් එකේ ෆස්ට් එඩ් බොක්ස් එකක් තියෙනවා” — There's a first aid kit in the car. You can hear how it sounds right here. Written with the characters ෆ, ස, ්, ට, ්, එ, ඩ, ්, බ, ො, ක, ්. A word from the everyday Sinhala course, level A2.
In short
| Written in Sinhala | ෆස්ට් එඩ් බොක්ස් එක |
| Read in Latin letters | fasṭ eḍ boks eka |
| Translation | first aid kit |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A2 |
- ෆස්ට් එඩ් බොක්ස් එකfasṭ eḍ boks ekafirst aid kit
Why it looks that way
English first aid box. The bookish phrase is written on the office box itself
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.
- කාර් එකේ ෆස්ට් එඩ් බොක්ස් එකක් තියෙනවාkār ekē fasṭ eḍ boks ekak tiyenavāThere's a first aid kit in the car
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 “first aid kit” in Sinhala?
«ෆස්ට් එඩ් බොක්ස් එක», read “fasṭ eḍ boks eka”. In a live sentence: “කාර් එකේ ෆස්ට් එඩ් බොක්ස් එකක් තියෙනවා” — There's a first aid kit in the car. You can hear how it sounds right on this page. Noun, level A2; written with the characters ෆ, ස, ්, ට, ්, එ, ඩ, ්, බ, ො, ක, ්.
How is “ෆස්ට් එඩ් බොක්ස් එක” written in Latin letters?
fasṭ eḍ boks 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?
English first aid box. The bookish phrase is written on the office box itself. 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.