เอา ให้ ได้
“เอา ให้ ได้” (ао хай даай) — at any cost in Thai. Phrase, level B1. Literally "take so that it comes out": three short words with stubbornness in them. I want it — and that is all; the question of price is not asked. In a live sentence: “เอา ให้ ได้ ก่อน ปิด ปี” — At any cost — before the end of the year. Written with the characters เ, อ, า, ใ, ห, ้, ไ, ด, ้.
In short
| Written in Thai | เอา ให้ ได้ |
| Read in Latin letters | ао хай даай |
| Translation | at any cost |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
Literally "take so that it comes out": three short words with stubbornness in them. I want it — and that is all; the question of price is not asked
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.
- เอา ให้ ได้ ก่อน ปิด ปีао хай даай кон пит пийAt any cost — before the end of the year
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 “at any cost” in Thai?
«เอา ให้ ได้», read “ао хай даай”. In a live sentence: “เอา ให้ ได้ ก่อน ปิด ปี” — At any cost — before the end of the year. Phrase, level B1; written with the characters เ, อ, า, ใ, ห, ้, ไ, ด, ้.
How is “เอา ให้ ได้” written in Latin letters?
ао хай даай. 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 "take so that it comes out": three short words with stubbornness in them. I want it — and that is all; the question of price is not asked. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.