คน ส่ง จด หมาย
“คน ส่ง จด หมาย” (кхон сонг джот маай) — postman; mail carrier in Thai. Noun, level A2. Literally "person send letters": Thai professions are assembled from person plus deed, like the seller and the driver. In a live sentence: “คน ส่ง จด หมาย มา ตอน เช้า” — The postman comes in the morning. Written with the characters ค, น, ส, ่, ง, จ, ด, ห, ม, า, ย. A word from the everyday Thai course, level A2.
In short
| Written in Thai | คน ส่ง จด หมาย |
| Read in Latin letters | кхон сонг джот маай |
| Translation | postman; mail carrier |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A2 |
Why it looks that way
Literally "person send letters": Thai professions are assembled from person plus deed, like the seller and the 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.
- คน ส่ง จด หมาย มา ตอน เช้าкхон сонг джот маай ма тон чаоThe postman comes 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 “postman; mail carrier” in Thai?
«คน ส่ง จด หมาย», read “кхон сонг джот маай”. In a live sentence: “คน ส่ง จด หมาย มา ตอน เช้า” — The postman comes in the morning. Noun, level A2; written with the characters ค, น, ส, ่, ง, จ, ด, ห, ม, า, ย.
How is “คน ส่ง จด หมาย” written in Latin letters?
кхон сонг джот маай. 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 send letters": Thai professions are assembled from person plus deed, like the seller and the driver. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.