เดิน เข้า ไป หา
“เดิน เข้า ไป หา” (дён као пай ха) — to approach; to come up to in Thai. Verb, level A2. Literally "walk enter to him": three familiar words — walk, enter, to whom. To come up to a counter and to a person — the same. In a live sentence: “เดิน เข้า ไป หา พนักงาน แล้ว ถาม” — Go up to the staff member and ask. Written with the characters เ, ด, ิ, น, เ, ข, ้, า, ไ, ป, ห, า.
In short
| Written in Thai | เดิน เข้า ไป หา |
| Read in Latin letters | дён као пай ха |
| Translation | to approach; to come up to |
| Part of speech | verb |
| Level | A2 |
Why it looks that way
Literally "walk enter to him": three familiar words — walk, enter, to whom. To come up to a counter and to a person — the same
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.
- เดิน เข้า ไป หา พนักงาน แล้ว ถามдён као пай ха пханакган лаэо тхаамGo up to the staff member and ask
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 approach; to come up to” in Thai?
«เดิน เข้า ไป หา», read “дён као пай ха”. In a live sentence: “เดิน เข้า ไป หา พนักงาน แล้ว ถาม” — Go up to the staff member and ask. Verb, level A2; written with the characters เ, ด, ิ, น, เ, ข, ้, า, ไ, ป, ห, า.
How is “เดิน เข้า ไป หา” written in Latin letters?
дён као пай ха. 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 "walk enter to him": three familiar words — walk, enter, to whom. To come up to a counter and to a person — the same. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.