නෝට් බුක් එක
“නෝට් බුක් එක” (nōṭ buk eka) — notebook in Sinhala. Noun, level A1. What you ask for at the shop. The bookish abhyāsa pota is printed on the notebook's own cover. In a live sentence: “මට නෝට් බුක් එකක් ඕනේ” — I need a notebook. You can hear how it sounds right here. Written with the characters න, ෝ, ට, ්, බ, ු, ක, ්, එ, ක. A word from the everyday Sinhala course, level A1.
In short
| Written in Sinhala | නෝට් බුක් එක |
| Read in Latin letters | nōṭ buk eka |
| Translation | notebook |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A1 |
- නෝට් බුක් එකnōṭ buk ekanotebook
Why it looks that way
What you ask for at the shop. The bookish abhyāsa pota is printed on the notebook's own cover
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.
- මට නෝට් බුක් එකක් ඕනේmaṭa nōṭ buk ekak ōnēI need a notebook
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 “notebook” in Sinhala?
«නෝට් බුක් එක», read “nōṭ buk eka”. In a live sentence: “මට නෝට් බුක් එකක් ඕනේ” — I need a notebook. You can hear how it sounds right on this page. Noun, level A1; written with the characters න, ෝ, ට, ්, බ, ු, ක, ්, එ, ක.
How is “නෝට් බුක් එක” written in Latin letters?
nōṭ buk 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?
What you ask for at the shop. The bookish abhyāsa pota is printed on the notebook's own cover. 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.