เครื่อง ปั่น ไฟ
“เครื่อง ปั่น ไฟ” (кхрыанг пан фай) — generator in Thai. Noun, level B1. Literally "machine for spinning fire": the spinning turns like pedals. When the lights go out, they start up the "fire-spinner". In a live sentence: “ไฟ ดับ เครื่อง ปั่น ไฟ ช่วย ได้” — The lights went out — the generator will help. Written with the characters เ, ค, ร, ื, ่, อ, ง, ป, ่, น, ไ, ฟ. A word from the everyday Thai course, level B1.
In short
| Written in Thai | เครื่อง ปั่น ไฟ |
| Read in Latin letters | кхрыанг пан фай |
| Translation | generator |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
Literally "machine for spinning fire": the spinning turns like pedals. When the lights go out, they start up the "fire-spinner"
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.
- ไฟ ดับ เครื่อง ปั่น ไฟ ช่วย ได้фай дап кхрыанг пан фай чуай даайThe lights went out — the generator will help
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 “generator” in Thai?
«เครื่อง ปั่น ไฟ», read “кхрыанг пан фай”. In a live sentence: “ไฟ ดับ เครื่อง ปั่น ไฟ ช่วย ได้” — The lights went out — the generator will help. Noun, level B1; written with the characters เ, ค, ร, ื, ่, อ, ง, ป, ่, น, ไ, ฟ.
How is “เครื่อง ปั่น ไฟ” written in Latin letters?
кхрыанг пан фай. 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 "machine for spinning fire": the spinning turns like pedals. When the lights go out, they start up the "fire-spinner". A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.