เหตุ
“เหตุ” (хет) — incident in Thai. Noun, level B1. The first half of "event", but by itself it already means trouble: said of an incident on the road. You know it from the accident word. In a live sentence: “เหตุ นี้ อันตราย ไหม” — Is this incident dangerous? Written with the characters เ, ห, ต, ุ. A word from the everyday Thai course, level B1.
In short
| Written in Thai | เหตุ |
| Read in Latin letters | хет |
| Translation | incident |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
The first half of "event", but by itself it already means trouble: said of an incident on the road. You know it from the accident word
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.
- เหตุ นี้ อันตราย ไหมхет ний антараай майIs this incident dangerous?
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 “incident” in Thai?
«เหตุ», read “хет”. In a live sentence: “เหตุ นี้ อันตราย ไหม” — Is this incident dangerous? Noun, level B1; written with the characters เ, ห, ต, ุ.
How is “เหตุ” written in Latin letters?
хет. 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 first half of "event", but by itself it already means trouble: said of an incident on the road. You know it from the accident word. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.