คุณ คิด ว่า อย่างไร
“คุณ คิด ว่า อย่างไร” (кхун кхит ваа янграй) — what do you think? in Thai. Phrase, level B1. A polite question: with "you" it sounds respectful; with a friend one says "you" informal. The tail word "how" is the same as in "how are you", the first lesson of the course. In a live sentence: “ราคา ใหม่ คุณ คิด ว่า อย่างไร” — What do you think of the new price? A word from the everyday Thai course, level B1.
In short
| Written in Thai | คุณ คิด ว่า อย่างไร |
| Read in Latin letters | кхун кхит ваа янграй |
| Translation | what do you think? |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
A polite question: with "you" it sounds respectful; with a friend one says "you" informal. The tail word "how" is the same as in "how are you", the first lesson of the course
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.
- ราคา ใหม่ คุณ คิด ว่า อย่างไรракхаа май кхун кхит ваа янграйWhat do you think of the new price?
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 “what do you think?” in Thai?
«คุณ คิด ว่า อย่างไร», read “кхун кхит ваа янграй”. In a live sentence: “ราคา ใหม่ คุณ คิด ว่า อย่างไร” — What do you think of the new price? Phrase, level B1; written with the characters ค, ุ, ณ, ค, ิ, ด, ว, ่, า, อ, ย, ่…
How is “คุณ คิด ว่า อย่างไร” written in Latin letters?
кхун кхит ваа янграй. 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?
A polite question: with "you" it sounds respectful; with a friend one says "you" informal. The tail word "how" is the same as in "how are you", the first lesson of the course. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.