เก็บ งาน ให้ เสร็จ
“เก็บ งาน ให้ เสร็จ” (кеп нган хай сэт) — to finish up; to put the final touches in Thai. Phrase, level B1. Literally "gather the work to readiness": the unboxing was the start, the gathering is the finish. The Thai keeps no idiom about the mind here — it is about hands. In a live sentence: “เก็บ งาน ให้ เสร็จ ก่อน หัว หน้า ถาม” — Finish up the work before the boss asks. A word from the everyday Thai course, level B1.
In short
| Written in Thai | เก็บ งาน ให้ เสร็จ |
| Read in Latin letters | кеп нган хай сэт |
| Translation | to finish up; to put the final touches |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
Literally "gather the work to readiness": the unboxing was the start, the gathering is the finish. The Thai keeps no idiom about the mind here — it is about hands
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.
- เก็บ งาน ให้ เสร็จ ก่อน หัว หน้า ถามкеп нган хай сэт кон хуа наа тхаамFinish up the work before the boss asks
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 finish up; to put the final touches” in Thai?
«เก็บ งาน ให้ เสร็จ», read “кеп нган хай сэт”. In a live sentence: “เก็บ งาน ให้ เสร็จ ก่อน หัว หน้า ถาม” — Finish up the work before the boss asks. Phrase, level B1; written with the characters เ, ก, บ, ง, า, น, ใ, ห, ้, เ, ส, ร…
How is “เก็บ งาน ให้ เสร็จ” written in Latin letters?
кеп нган хай сэт. 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 "gather the work to readiness": the unboxing was the start, the gathering is the finish. The Thai keeps no idiom about the mind here — it is about hands. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.