ควัก
“ควัก” (кхуак) — to take out (of a pocket) in Thai. Verb, level A1. The hand goes into the pocket or bag and takes out what lay there. From a shelf you took with another word — this one is about the depth of the pocket. The tone falls. In a live sentence: “ผม ควัก โทรศัพท์ จาก กระเป๋า” — I take the phone out of the bag. Written with the characters ค, ว, ก. A word from the everyday Thai course, level A1.
In short
| Written in Thai | ควัก |
| Read in Latin letters | кхуак |
| Translation | to take out (of a pocket) |
| Part of speech | verb |
| Level | A1 |
Why it looks that way
The hand goes into the pocket or bag and takes out what lay there. From a shelf you took with another word — this one is about the depth of the pocket. The tone falls
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.
- ผม ควัก โทรศัพท์ จาก กระเป๋าпхом кхуак торасап джак крапхаоI take the phone out of the bag
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 “to take out (of a pocket)” in Thai?
«ควัก», read “кхуак”. In a live sentence: “ผม ควัก โทรศัพท์ จาก กระเป๋า” — I take the phone out of the bag. Verb, level A1; written with the characters ค, ว, ก.
How is “ควัก” written in Latin letters?
кхуак. 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 hand goes into the pocket or bag and takes out what lay there. From a shelf you took with another word — this one is about the depth of the pocket. The tone falls. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.