เจอ
“เจอ” (джёр) — to find; to run into in Thai. Verb, level A1. To find with your eyes, to run into by chance: phom joe laeo — "I have found it already". The same word speaks of meeting a person in the street. In a live sentence: “ผม เจอ แล้ว” — I have found it already. Written with the characters เ, จ, อ. A word from the everyday Thai course, level A1.
In short
| Written in Thai | เจอ |
| Read in Latin letters | джёр |
| Translation | to find; to run into |
| Part of speech | verb |
| Level | A1 |
Why it looks that way
To find with your eyes, to run into by chance: phom joe laeo — "I have found it already". The same word speaks of meeting a person in the street
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.
- ผม เจอ แล้วпхом джёр лаэоI have found it already
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 find; to run into” in Thai?
«เจอ», read “джёр”. In a live sentence: “ผม เจอ แล้ว” — I have found it already. Verb, level A1; written with the characters เ, จ, อ.
How is “เจอ” written in Latin letters?
джёр. 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?
To find with your eyes, to run into by chance: phom joe laeo — "I have found it already". The same word speaks of meeting a person in the street. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.