เช็ด ฝุ่น
“เช็ด ฝุ่น” (чэт фун) — to dust; to wipe in Thai. Verb, level A1. The familiar "there is dust" held on fun; chet is to wipe with a cloth. The floor is washed, the table is wiped. In a live sentence: “เช็ด ฝุ่น ที่ โต๊ะ ทุก วัน” — Dust the table every day. Written with the characters เ, ช, ด, ฝ, ุ, ่, น. A word from the everyday Thai course, level A1.
In short
| Written in Thai | เช็ด ฝุ่น |
| Read in Latin letters | чэт фун |
| Translation | to dust; to wipe |
| Part of speech | verb |
| Level | A1 |
Why it looks that way
The familiar "there is dust" held on fun; chet is to wipe with a cloth. The floor is washed, the table is wiped
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.
- เช็ด ฝุ่น ที่ โต๊ะ ทุก วันчэт фун ти то тхук ванDust the table every day
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 dust; to wipe” in Thai?
«เช็ด ฝุ่น», read “чэт фун”. In a live sentence: “เช็ด ฝุ่น ที่ โต๊ะ ทุก วัน” — Dust the table every day. Verb, level A1; written with the characters เ, ช, ด, ฝ, ุ, ่, น.
How is “เช็ด ฝุ่น” written in Latin letters?
чэт фун. 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 familiar "there is dust" held on fun; chet is to wipe with a cloth. The floor is washed, the table is wiped. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.