คน งาน ก่อ สร้าง
“คน งาน ก่อ สร้าง” (кхон нган ко санг) — construction worker; builder in Thai. Noun, level A2. Literally "person of the building work": the build is the one from your construction site. No short word for builder exists — the trade is described, not named. In a live sentence: “คน งาน ก่อ สร้าง มา ทำ งาน ตอน เช้า” — The builders come to work in the morning. Written with the characters ค, น, ง, า, น, ก, ่, อ, ส, ร, ้, า…
In short
| Written in Thai | คน งาน ก่อ สร้าง |
| Read in Latin letters | кхон нган ко санг |
| Translation | construction worker; builder |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A2 |
Why it looks that way
Literally "person of the building work": the build is the one from your construction site. No short word for builder exists — the trade is described, not named
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.
- คน งาน ก่อ สร้าง มา ทำ งาน ตอน เช้าкхон нган ко санг ма тхам нган тон чаоThe builders come to work in the morning
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 “construction worker; builder” in Thai?
«คน งาน ก่อ สร้าง», read “кхон нган ко санг”. In a live sentence: “คน งาน ก่อ สร้าง มา ทำ งาน ตอน เช้า” — The builders come to work in the morning. Noun, level A2; written with the characters ค, น, ง, า, น, ก, ่, อ, ส, ร, ้, า…
How is “คน งาน ก่อ สร้าง” written in Latin letters?
кхон нган ко санг. 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 "person of the building work": the build is the one from your construction site. No short word for builder exists — the trade is described, not named. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.