จ่าย ล่วง หน้า
“จ่าย ล่วง หน้า” (джай луанг наа) — advance payment in Thai. Noun, level A2. Literally "pay in front": "pay" and "in advance" you know. The deposit word is taken by the deposit, and the "money in front" is the advance; this is money up front for the work. In a live sentence: “ช่าง ขอ จ่าย ล่วง หน้า” — The repairman asks for an advance payment. Written with the characters จ, ่, า, ย, ล, ่, ว, ง, ห, น, ้, า.
In short
| Written in Thai | จ่าย ล่วง หน้า |
| Read in Latin letters | джай луанг наа |
| Translation | advance payment |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A2 |
Why it looks that way
Literally "pay in front": "pay" and "in advance" you know. The deposit word is taken by the deposit, and the "money in front" is the advance; this is money up front for the work
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.
- ช่าง ขอ จ่าย ล่วง หน้าчанг кхо джай луанг нааThe repairman asks for an advance payment
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 “advance payment” in Thai?
«จ่าย ล่วง หน้า», read “джай луанг наа”. In a live sentence: “ช่าง ขอ จ่าย ล่วง หน้า” — The repairman asks for an advance payment. Noun, level A2; written with the characters จ, ่, า, ย, ล, ่, ว, ง, ห, น, ้, า.
How is “จ่าย ล่วง หน้า” written in Latin letters?
джай луанг наа. 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 "pay in front": "pay" and "in advance" you know. The deposit word is taken by the deposit, and the "money in front" is the advance; this is money up front for the work. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.