กี่ ครั้ง
“กี่ ครั้ง” (кий кхранг) — how many times? in Thai. Adverb, level A1. The familiar kii, "how many", plus khrang, "time": counting repeats. It stands at the end: "pai talat ...?" — "to the market how many times?" In a live sentence: “ต่อ อาทิตย์ กี่ ครั้ง” — How many times a week? Written with the characters ก, ี, ่, ค, ร, ้, ง. A word from the everyday Thai course, level A1.
In short
| Written in Thai | กี่ ครั้ง |
| Read in Latin letters | кий кхранг |
| Translation | how many times? |
| Part of speech | adverb |
| Level | A1 |
Why it looks that way
The familiar kii, "how many", plus khrang, "time": counting repeats. It stands at the end: "pai talat ...?" — "to the market how many times?"
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.
- ต่อ อาทิตย์ กี่ ครั้งто атхит кий кхрангHow many times a week?
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 “how many times?” in Thai?
«กี่ ครั้ง», read “кий кхранг”. In a live sentence: “ต่อ อาทิตย์ กี่ ครั้ง” — How many times a week? Adverb, level A1; written with the characters ก, ี, ่, ค, ร, ้, ง.
How is “กี่ ครั้ง” written in Latin letters?
кий кхранг. 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 familiar kii, "how many", plus khrang, "time": counting repeats. It stands at the end: "pai talat ...?" — "to the market how many times?" A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.