les manuelles
“les manuelles” — dumbbells in Valencian. Noun, level B1. Always plural; start with the small ones and add weight little by little. In a live sentence: “Comença amb les manuelles petites i puja pes a poc a poc” — Start with the small dumbbells and add weight little by little. You can hear how it sounds right here. A word from the everyday Valencian course, level B1.
In short
| Written in Valencian | les manuelles |
| Translation | dumbbells |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | B1 |
- les manuellesdumbbells
Why it looks that way
Always plural; start with the small ones and add weight little by little
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.
- Comença amb les manuelles petites i puja pes a poc a pocStart with the small dumbbells and add weight little by little
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 “dumbbells” in Valencian?
«les manuelles». In a live sentence: “Comença amb les manuelles petites i puja pes a poc a poc” — Start with the small dumbbells and add weight little by little. You can hear how it sounds right on this page. Noun, level B1.
Why does this word look the way it does?
Always plural; start with the small ones and add weight little by little. 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 this 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.