ข้อมูล ส่วน ตัว
“ข้อมูล ส่วน ตัว” (кхомуун суан туа) — personal data in Thai. Noun, level A1. Khomuun, "data", you know from the phone lesson; suan tua is "one's own, personal". Personal data — name, address, phone, everything about you. In a live sentence: “ข้อมูล ส่วน ตัว อยู่ ใน พาสปอร์ต” — The personal data is in the passport. Written with the characters ข, ้, อ, ม, ู, ล, ส, ่, ว, น, ต, ว. A word from the everyday Thai course, level A1.
In short
| Written in Thai | ข้อมูล ส่วน ตัว |
| Read in Latin letters | кхомуун суан туа |
| Translation | personal data |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A1 |
Why it looks that way
Khomuun, "data", you know from the phone lesson; suan tua is "one's own, personal". Personal data — name, address, phone, everything about you
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.
- ข้อมูล ส่วน ตัว อยู่ ใน พาสปอร์ตкхомуун суан туа ю наи пааспоотThe personal data is in the passport
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 “personal data” in Thai?
«ข้อมูล ส่วน ตัว», read “кхомуун суан туа”. In a live sentence: “ข้อมูล ส่วน ตัว อยู่ ใน พาสปอร์ต” — The personal data is in the passport. Noun, level A1; written with the characters ข, ้, อ, ม, ู, ล, ส, ่, ว, น, ต, ว.
How is “ข้อมูล ส่วน ตัว” written in Latin letters?
кхомуун суан туа. 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?
Khomuun, "data", you know from the phone lesson; suan tua is "one's own, personal". Personal data — name, address, phone, everything about you. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.