การ ปลูก ต้น ไม้
“การ ปลูก ต้น ไม้” (кан плук тон май) — tree planting; greening in Thai. Noun, level B1. Literally "business of planting trees": so greening is named in city plans. There is no separate word — the Thai describes the action. In a live sentence: “การ ปลูก ต้น ไม้ ทำ ให้ อากาศ ดี ขึ้น” — Tree planting makes the air better. Written with the characters ก, า, ร, ป, ล, ู, ก, ต, ้, น, ไ, ม… A word from the everyday Thai course, level B1.
In short
| Written in Thai | การ ปลูก ต้น ไม้ |
| Read in Latin letters | кан плук тон май |
| Translation | tree planting; greening |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
Literally "business of planting trees": so greening is named in city plans. There is no separate word — the Thai describes the action
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.
- การ ปลูก ต้น ไม้ ทำ ให้ อากาศ ดี ขึ้นкан плук тон май тхам хай акаат ди кхынTree planting makes the air better
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 “tree planting; greening” in Thai?
«การ ปลูก ต้น ไม้», read “кан плук тон май”. In a live sentence: “การ ปลูก ต้น ไม้ ทำ ให้ อากาศ ดี ขึ้น” — Tree planting makes the air better. Noun, level B1; written with the characters ก, า, ร, ป, ล, ู, ก, ต, ้, น, ไ, ม…
How is “การ ปลูก ต้น ไม้” written in Latin letters?
кан плук тон май. 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 "business of planting trees": so greening is named in city plans. There is no separate word — the Thai describes the action. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.