ยก เลิก การ จอง
“ยก เลิก การ จอง” (йак лёк кан джонг) — cancellation of a booking in Thai. Noun, level B1. Literally "lift the booking": the cancel verb cancels anything, from a meeting to a subscription. Free cancellation is usually a day or two ahead; in Thai it is said with the free word. In a live sentence: “ต้อง ยก เลิก การ จอง วัน นี้” — The booking must be cancelled today. Written with the characters ย, ก, เ, ล, ิ, ก, ก, า, ร, จ, อ, ง.
In short
| Written in Thai | ยก เลิก การ จอง |
| Read in Latin letters | йак лёк кан джонг |
| Translation | cancellation of a booking |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
Literally "lift the booking": the cancel verb cancels anything, from a meeting to a subscription. Free cancellation is usually a day or two ahead; in Thai it is said with the free 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.
- ต้อง ยก เลิก การ จอง วัน นี้тонг йак лёк кан джонг ван нийThe booking must be cancelled today
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 “cancellation of a booking” in Thai?
«ยก เลิก การ จอง», read “йак лёк кан джонг”. In a live sentence: “ต้อง ยก เลิก การ จอง วัน นี้” — The booking must be cancelled today. Noun, level B1; written with the characters ย, ก, เ, ล, ิ, ก, ก, า, ร, จ, อ, ง.
How is “ยก เลิก การ จอง” written in Latin letters?
йак лёк кан джонг. 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 "lift the booking": the cancel verb cancels anything, from a meeting to a subscription. Free cancellation is usually a day or two ahead; in Thai it is said with the free word. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.