คิด ให้ ชัด
“คิด ให้ ชัด” (кхит хай чат) — to think through; to make sense of in Thai. Verb, level B1. Literally "think so that it is clear": the clear you know from asking distinctly. To make sense of something is to think it through to transparency. In a live sentence: “คิด ให้ ชัด ก่อน ตอบ คำ ถาม” — Think it through first, then answer the question. Written with the characters ค, ิ, ด, ใ, ห, ้, ช, ด.
In short
| Written in Thai | คิด ให้ ชัด |
| Read in Latin letters | кхит хай чат |
| Translation | to think through; to make sense of |
| Part of speech | verb |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
Literally "think so that it is clear": the clear you know from asking distinctly. To make sense of something is to think it through to transparency
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.
- คิด ให้ ชัด ก่อน ตอบ คำ ถามкхит хай чат кон топ кхам тхаамThink it through first, then answer the question
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 think through; to make sense of” in Thai?
«คิด ให้ ชัด», read “кхит хай чат”. In a live sentence: “คิด ให้ ชัด ก่อน ตอบ คำ ถาม” — Think it through first, then answer the question. Verb, level B1; written with the characters ค, ิ, ด, ใ, ห, ้, ช, ด.
How is “คิด ให้ ชัด” written in Latin letters?
кхит хай чат. 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 "think so that it is clear": the clear you know from asking distinctly. To make sense of something is to think it through to transparency. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.