เก็บ เงิน ปลาย ทาง
“เก็บ เงิน ปลาย ทาง” (кеп нгын плаай таанг) — cash on delivery in Thai. Noun, level B1. Literally "collect money at the end of the road": the end-of-the-road is your terminal word. Cash on delivery is described honestly: the money is collected when the parcel has arrived. In a live sentence: “ผม เลือก เก็บ เงิน ปลาย ทาง” — I chose cash on delivery. Written with the characters เ, ก, บ, เ, ง, ิ, น, ป, ล, า, ย, ท…
In short
| Written in Thai | เก็บ เงิน ปลาย ทาง |
| Read in Latin letters | кеп нгын плаай таанг |
| Translation | cash on delivery |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
Literally "collect money at the end of the road": the end-of-the-road is your terminal word. Cash on delivery is described honestly: the money is collected when the parcel has arrived
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 เลือก เก็บ เงิน ปลาย ทางпхом лыэк кеп нгын плаай таангI chose cash on delivery
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 “cash on delivery” in Thai?
«เก็บ เงิน ปลาย ทาง», read “кеп нгын плаай таанг”. In a live sentence: “ผม เลือก เก็บ เงิน ปลาย ทาง” — I chose cash on delivery. Noun, level B1; written with the characters เ, ก, บ, เ, ง, ิ, น, ป, ล, า, ย, ท…
How is “เก็บ เงิน ปลาย ทาง” written in Latin letters?
кеп нгын плаай таанг. 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 "collect money at the end of the road": the end-of-the-road is your terminal word. Cash on delivery is described honestly: the money is collected when the parcel has arrived. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.