ฝั่ง ตรง ข้าม
“ฝั่ง ตรง ข้าม” (фанг тронг кхаам) — across from; opposite in Thai. Preposition, level A2. Literally "side straight across": the across you know; for a place Thai adds the bank, the side. The pharmacy across the road is "the pharmacy of the across side". In a live sentence: “ร้าน ขาย ยา อยู่ ฝั่ง ตรง ข้าม” — The pharmacy is across the road. Written with the characters ฝ, ่, ง, ต, ร, ง, ข, ้, า, ม. A word from the everyday Thai course, level A2.
In short
| Written in Thai | ฝั่ง ตรง ข้าม |
| Read in Latin letters | фанг тронг кхаам |
| Translation | across from; opposite |
| Part of speech | preposition |
| Level | A2 |
Why it looks that way
Literally "side straight across": the across you know; for a place Thai adds the bank, the side. The pharmacy across the road is "the pharmacy of the across side"
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.
- ร้าน ขาย ยา อยู่ ฝั่ง ตรง ข้ามран кхаай йа ю фанг тронг кхаамThe pharmacy is across the road
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 “across from; opposite” in Thai?
«ฝั่ง ตรง ข้าม», read “фанг тронг кхаам”. In a live sentence: “ร้าน ขาย ยา อยู่ ฝั่ง ตรง ข้าม” — The pharmacy is across the road. Preposition, level A2; written with the characters ฝ, ่, ง, ต, ร, ง, ข, ้, า, ม.
How is “ฝั่ง ตรง ข้าม” written in Latin letters?
фанг тронг кхаам. 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 "side straight across": the across you know; for a place Thai adds the bank, the side. The pharmacy across the road is "the pharmacy of the across side". A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.