ฝุ่น
“ฝุ่น” (фун) — dust in Thai. Noun, level A1. The word already stood inside "dust the table" — here it is itself. In the field-burning season there is noticeably more of it in the house. In a live sentence: “ใน ห้อง มี ฝุ่น มาก” — There is a lot of dust in the room. Written with the characters ฝ, ุ, ่, น. A word from the everyday Thai course, level A1.
In short
| Written in Thai | ฝุ่น |
| Read in Latin letters | фун |
| Translation | dust |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A1 |
Why it looks that way
The word already stood inside "dust the table" — here it is itself. In the field-burning season there is noticeably more of it in the house
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.
- ใน ห้อง มี ฝุ่น มากнаи хонг ми фун макThere is a lot of dust in the room
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 “dust” in Thai?
«ฝุ่น», read “фун”. In a live sentence: “ใน ห้อง มี ฝุ่น มาก” — There is a lot of dust in the room. Noun, level A1; written with the characters ฝ, ุ, ่, น.
How is “ฝุ่น” written in Latin letters?
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 word already stood inside "dust the table" — here it is itself. In the field-burning season there is noticeably more of it in the house. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.