โกน เครา
“โกน เครา” (кон кхао) — to shave in Thai. Verb, level A1. The familiar kon from "shave the whiskers" — here with the beard: khrao you saw in the body lesson. Stubble is of the same word family. In a live sentence: “พ่อ โกน เครา ก่อน ไป ทำ งาน” — Dad shaves before work. Written with the characters โ, ก, น, เ, ค, ร, า. A word from the everyday Thai course, level A1.
In short
| Written in Thai | โกน เครา |
| Read in Latin letters | кон кхао |
| Translation | to shave |
| Part of speech | verb |
| Level | A1 |
Why it looks that way
The familiar kon from "shave the whiskers" — here with the beard: khrao you saw in the body lesson. Stubble is of the same word family
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.
- พ่อ โกน เครา ก่อน ไป ทำ งานпхё кон кхао кон пай тхам нганDad shaves before work
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 shave” in Thai?
«โกน เครา», read “кон кхао”. In a live sentence: “พ่อ โกน เครา ก่อน ไป ทำ งาน” — Dad shaves before work. Verb, level A1; written with the characters โ, ก, น, เ, ค, ร, า.
How is “โกน เครา” written in Latin letters?
кон кхао. 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 kon from "shave the whiskers" — here with the beard: khrao you saw in the body lesson. Stubble is of the same word family. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.