ඉස්කෝලේ බෙල් එක
“ඉස්කෝලේ බෙල් එක” (iskōlē bel eka) — school bell in Sinhala. Noun, level A2. English bell. The familiar sīnuva is the temple bell, not the school one. In a live sentence: “ඉස්කෝලේ බෙල් එක ගැහුවා” — The school bell has rung. You can hear how it sounds right here. Written with the characters ඉ, ස, ්, ක, ෝ, ල, ේ, බ, ෙ, ල, ්, එ. A word from the everyday Sinhala course, level A2.
In short
| Written in Sinhala | ඉස්කෝලේ බෙල් එක |
| Read in Latin letters | iskōlē bel eka |
| Translation | school bell |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A2 |
- ඉස්කෝලේ බෙල් එකiskōlē bel ekaschool bell
Why it looks that way
English bell. The familiar sīnuva is the temple bell, not the school one
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.
- ඉස්කෝලේ බෙල් එක ගැහුවාiskōlē bel eka gæhuvāThe school bell has rung
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 “school bell” in Sinhala?
«ඉස්කෝලේ බෙල් එක», read “iskōlē bel eka”. In a live sentence: “ඉස්කෝලේ බෙල් එක ගැහුවා” — The school bell has rung. You can hear how it sounds right on this page. Noun, level A2; written with the characters ඉ, ස, ්, ක, ෝ, ල, ේ, බ, ෙ, ල, ්, එ.
How is “ඉස්කෝලේ බෙල් එක” written in Latin letters?
iskōlē bel 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 bell. The familiar sīnuva is the temple bell, not the school one. 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.