ค่อย โทร มา ใหม่
“ค่อย โทร มา ใหม่” (кхёй тор ма май) — I will call you back in Thai. Phrase, level A2. Literally "then will call come": the then is a postponing word — "later, at that point". "Call me back" you already know; here the caller is you, and you promise. In a live sentence: “ผม ค่อย โทร มา ใหม่ ครับ” — I will call you back. Written with the characters ค, ่, อ, ย, โ, ท, ร, ม, า, ใ, ห, ม…
In short
| Written in Thai | ค่อย โทร มา ใหม่ |
| Read in Latin letters | кхёй тор ма май |
| Translation | I will call you back |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | A2 |
Why it looks that way
Literally "then will call come": the then is a postponing word — "later, at that point". "Call me back" you already know; here the caller is you, and you promise
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 ค่อย โทร มา ใหม่ ครับпхом кхёй тор ма май кхрапI will call you back
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 “I will call you back” in Thai?
«ค่อย โทร มา ใหม่», read “кхёй тор ма май”. In a live sentence: “ผม ค่อย โทร มา ใหม่ ครับ” — I will call you back. Phrase, level A2; written with the characters ค, ่, อ, ย, โ, ท, ร, ม, า, ใ, ห, ม…
How is “ค่อย โทร มา ใหม่” written in Latin letters?
кхёй тор ма 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 "then will call come": the then is a postponing word — "later, at that point". "Call me back" you already know; here the caller is you, and you promise. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.