อายุ การ ใช้ งาน
“อายุ การ ใช้ งาน” (айу кан чай нган) — service life in Thai. Phrase, level B1. Literally "age of the business of use": how long a device must work. The age you know about people; here it belongs to things. In a live sentence: “อายุ การ ใช้ งาน ของ ลิฟต์ ยี่ สิบ ปี” — The service life of a lift is twenty years. Written with the characters อ, า, ย, ุ, ก, า, ร, ใ, ช, ้, ง, า…
In short
| Written in Thai | อายุ การ ใช้ งาน |
| Read in Latin letters | айу кан чай нган |
| Translation | service life |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
Literally "age of the business of use": how long a device must work. The age you know about people; here it belongs to things
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.
- อายุ การ ใช้ งาน ของ ลิฟต์ ยี่ สิบ ปีайу кан чай нган кхонг лит йи сип пийThe service life of a lift is twenty years
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 “service life” in Thai?
«อายุ การ ใช้ งาน», read “айу кан чай нган”. In a live sentence: “อายุ การ ใช้ งาน ของ ลิฟต์ ยี่ สิบ ปี” — The service life of a lift is twenty years. Phrase, level B1; written with the characters อ, า, ย, ุ, ก, า, ร, ใ, ช, ้, ง, า…
How is “อายุ การ ใช้ งาน” written in Latin letters?
айу кан чай нган. 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?
Literally "age of the business of use": how long a device must work. The age you know about people; here it belongs to things. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.