ดี ขึ้น ทุก ครั้ง
“ดี ขึ้น ทุก ครั้ง” (ди кхын тхук кхранг) — better every time in Thai. Phrase, level B1. Literally "good rises every time": the time is the classifier for events, which you know. Thai sees progress as a staircase upward. In a live sentence: “พูด ภาษา ไทย ดี ขึ้น ทุก ครั้ง” — Every time I speak Thai better. Written with the characters ด, ี, ข, ึ, ้, น, ท, ุ, ก, ค, ร, ้… A word from the everyday Thai course, level B1.
In short
| Written in Thai | ดี ขึ้น ทุก ครั้ง |
| Read in Latin letters | ди кхын тхук кхранг |
| Translation | better every time |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
Literally "good rises every time": the time is the classifier for events, which you know. Thai sees progress as a staircase upward
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.
- พูด ภาษา ไทย ดี ขึ้น ทุก ครั้งпхут пхаса тхай ди кхын тхук кхрангEvery time I speak Thai better
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 “better every time” in Thai?
«ดี ขึ้น ทุก ครั้ง», read “ди кхын тхук кхранг”. In a live sentence: “พูด ภาษา ไทย ดี ขึ้น ทุก ครั้ง” — Every time I speak Thai better. Phrase, level B1; written with the characters ด, ี, ข, ึ, ้, น, ท, ุ, ก, ค, ร, ้…
How is “ดี ขึ้น ทุก ครั้ง” written in Latin letters?
ди кхын тхук кхранг. 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 "good rises every time": the time is the classifier for events, which you know. Thai sees progress as a staircase upward. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.