คน ขับ แท็กซี่
“คน ขับ แท็กซี่” (кхон кхап тэкси) — taxi driver in Thai. Noun, level A1. Khon khap rot, "driver", you know; behind the wheel of a taxi he is khon khap thaeksi — the same formula as in the bus driver. In a live sentence: “ผม จ่าย เงิน ให้ คน ขับ แท็กซี่” — I pay the money to the taxi driver. Written with the characters ค, น, ข, บ, แ, ท, ก, ซ, ี, ่. A word from the everyday Thai course, level A1.
In short
| Written in Thai | คน ขับ แท็กซี่ |
| Read in Latin letters | кхон кхап тэкси |
| Translation | taxi driver |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A1 |
Why it looks that way
Khon khap rot, "driver", you know; behind the wheel of a taxi he is khon khap thaeksi — the same formula as in the bus driver
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 จ่าย เงิน ให้ คน ขับ แท็กซี่пхом джай нгын хай кхон кхап тэксиI pay the money to the taxi driver
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 “taxi driver” in Thai?
«คน ขับ แท็กซี่», read “кхон кхап тэкси”. In a live sentence: “ผม จ่าย เงิน ให้ คน ขับ แท็กซี่” — I pay the money to the taxi driver. Noun, level A1; written with the characters ค, น, ข, บ, แ, ท, ก, ซ, ี, ่.
How is “คน ขับ แท็กซี่” written in Latin letters?
кхон кхап тэкси. 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?
Khon khap rot, "driver", you know; behind the wheel of a taxi he is khon khap thaeksi — the same formula as in the bus driver. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.