เจาะ
“เจาะ” (джор) — to drill; to bore in Thai. Verb, level A1. Khryang jo, the drill, you have met; the verb itself is jo, to drill — wells are bored with it too. In a live sentence: “เจาะ ผนัง ให้ ผม หน่อย” — Drill the wall for me, please. Written with the characters เ, จ, า, ะ. A word from the everyday Thai course, level A1.
In short
| Written in Thai | เจาะ |
| Read in Latin letters | джор |
| Translation | to drill; to bore |
| Part of speech | verb |
| Level | A1 |
Why it looks that way
Khryang jo, the drill, you have met; the verb itself is jo, to drill — wells are bored with it too
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.
- เจาะ ผนัง ให้ ผม หน่อยджор пхананг хай пхом нойDrill the wall for me, please
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 drill; to bore” in Thai?
«เจาะ», read “джор”. In a live sentence: “เจาะ ผนัง ให้ ผม หน่อย” — Drill the wall for me, please. Verb, level A1; written with the characters เ, จ, า, ะ.
How is “เจาะ” written in Latin letters?
джор. 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?
Khryang jo, the drill, you have met; the verb itself is jo, to drill — wells are bored with it too. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.