กิน ข้าว เย็น
“กิน ข้าว เย็น” (кин кхао йен) — to have dinner in Thai. Verb, level A1. And again "eat rice", the evening one now: yen, evening, you know. The Thai family dines together and early. In a live sentence: “ครอบครัว กิน ข้าว เย็น ที่ บ้าน” — The family has dinner at home. Written with the characters ก, ิ, น, ข, ้, า, ว, เ, ย, น. A word from the everyday Thai course, level A1.
In short
| Written in Thai | กิน ข้าว เย็น |
| Read in Latin letters | кин кхао йен |
| Translation | to have dinner |
| Part of speech | verb |
| Level | A1 |
Why it looks that way
And again "eat rice", the evening one now: yen, evening, you know. The Thai family dines together and early
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.
- ครอบครัว กิน ข้าว เย็น ที่ บ้านкхропкхруа кин кхао йен ти банThe family has dinner at home
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 have dinner” in Thai?
«กิน ข้าว เย็น», read “кин кхао йен”. In a live sentence: “ครอบครัว กิน ข้าว เย็น ที่ บ้าน” — The family has dinner at home. Verb, level A1; written with the characters ก, ิ, น, ข, ้, า, ว, เ, ย, น.
How is “กิน ข้าว เย็น” written in Latin letters?
кин кхао йен. 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?
And again "eat rice", the evening one now: yen, evening, you know. The Thai family dines together and early. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.