อ้าง ว่า
“อ้าง ว่า” (аанг ваа) — to claim; to assert in Thai. Verb, level B1. The word claims and cites at once: the speaker leans on something of his own. It is always followed by the "that". In a live sentence: “เขา อ้าง ว่า ไม่ เห็น อะไร” — He claims he saw nothing. Written with the characters อ, ้, า, ง, ว, ่, า. A word from the everyday Thai course, level B1.
In short
| Written in Thai | อ้าง ว่า |
| Read in Latin letters | аанг ваа |
| Translation | to claim; to assert |
| Part of speech | verb |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
The word claims and cites at once: the speaker leans on something of his own. It is always followed by the "that"
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.
- เขา อ้าง ว่า ไม่ เห็น อะไรкхао аанг ваа май хэн арайHe claims he saw nothing
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 “to claim; to assert” in Thai?
«อ้าง ว่า», read “аанг ваа”. In a live sentence: “เขา อ้าง ว่า ไม่ เห็น อะไร” — He claims he saw nothing. Verb, level B1; written with the characters อ, ้, า, ง, ว, ่, า.
How is “อ้าง ว่า” written in Latin letters?
аанг ваа. 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?
The word claims and cites at once: the speaker leans on something of his own. It is always followed by the "that". A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.