เครื่อง ยนต์
“เครื่อง ยนต์” (кхрыанг йон) — engine; motor in Thai. Noun, level B1. The first word is "motion", the root of the motor. The apparatus is the one in the washing machine; the engine is the car's chief apparatus. In a live sentence: “เครื่อง ยนต์ เสียง ดัง” — The engine is noisy. Written with the characters เ, ค, ร, ื, ่, อ, ง, ย, น, ต. A word from the everyday Thai course, level B1.
In short
| Written in Thai | เครื่อง ยนต์ |
| Read in Latin letters | кхрыанг йон |
| Translation | engine; motor |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
The first word is "motion", the root of the motor. The apparatus is the one in the washing machine; the engine is the car's chief apparatus
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.
- เครื่อง ยนต์ เสียง ดังкхрыанг йон сианг дангThe engine is noisy
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 “engine; motor” in Thai?
«เครื่อง ยนต์», read “кхрыанг йон”. In a live sentence: “เครื่อง ยนต์ เสียง ดัง” — The engine is noisy. Noun, level B1; written with the characters เ, ค, ร, ื, ่, อ, ง, ย, น, ต.
How is “เครื่อง ยนต์” written in Latin letters?
кхрыанг йон. 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?
The first word is "motion", the root of the motor. The apparatus is the one in the washing machine; the engine is the car's chief apparatus. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.