ให้ ลง
“ให้ ลง” (хай лонг) — to drop off (a passenger) in Thai. Verb, level A1. Literally "let down": the driver stops — the passenger gets out. The same hai as "give". In a live sentence: “แท็กซี่ จอด ให้ ลง ตรง หน้า โรง แรม” — The taxi stops and drops me off in front of the hotel. Written with the characters ใ, ห, ้, ล, ง. A word from the everyday Thai course, level A1.
In short
| Written in Thai | ให้ ลง |
| Read in Latin letters | хай лонг |
| Translation | to drop off (a passenger) |
| Part of speech | verb |
| Level | A1 |
Why it looks that way
Literally "let down": the driver stops — the passenger gets out. The same hai as "give"
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.
- แท็กซี่ จอด ให้ ลง ตรง หน้า โรง แรมтэкси джот хай лонг тронг наа ронг рэмThe taxi stops and drops me off in front of the hotel
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 drop off (a passenger)” in Thai?
«ให้ ลง», read “хай лонг”. In a live sentence: “แท็กซี่ จอด ให้ ลง ตรง หน้า โรง แรม” — The taxi stops and drops me off in front of the hotel. Verb, level A1; written with the characters ใ, ห, ้, ล, ง.
How is “ให้ ลง” written in Latin letters?
хай лонг. 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 "let down": the driver stops — the passenger gets out. The same hai as "give". A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.