คับ

In short

Why it looks that way

One syllable: "khap". Everything pressed against the walls: a room, a lift, a shoe. The narrow is yours; this one is about the lack of space

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.

• ห้อง นี้ คับ ไป หน่อย ของ วาง ไม่ พอ

  хонг ний кхап пай ной кхонг ваанг май пхо

  This room is rather cramped, the things have no room

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 times
  Kim & 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 times
  Adesope, 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 times
  Bertsch et al., 2007, Memory & Cognition 35(2) · 86 studies, 445 comparisons, d = 0.40.

Next

• ปริมาณ — amount; quantityread “примаан”
• ส่วน แบ่ง — share; portionread “суан бэнг”
• สัด ส่วน — ratio; proportionread “сат суан”
• หนึ่ง ใน สาม — a thirdread “нынг наи саам”
• All Thai wordsIndex by topic
• Why a word list doesn't sticka note