กด ปุ่ม
“กด ปุ่ม” (кот пум) — to press the button in Thai. Phrase, level A1. Kot, "press", you have met, and pum, "button", too; the tone is what separates them from "rule". The button on the site is pressed with the same verb. In a live sentence: “กด ปุ่ม นี้ แล้ว รอ” — Press this button and wait. Written with the characters ก, ด, ป, ุ, ่, ม. A word from the everyday Thai course, level A1.
In short
| Written in Thai | กด ปุ่ม |
| Read in Latin letters | кот пум |
| Translation | to press the button |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | A1 |
Why it looks that way
Kot, "press", you have met, and pum, "button", too; the tone is what separates them from "rule". The button on the site is pressed with the same verb
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.
- กด ปุ่ม นี้ แล้ว รอкот пум ний лаэо роPress this button and wait
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 press the button” in Thai?
«กด ปุ่ม», read “кот пум”. In a live sentence: “กด ปุ่ม นี้ แล้ว รอ” — Press this button and wait. Phrase, level A1; written with the characters ก, ด, ป, ุ, ่, ม.
How is “กด ปุ่ม” written in Latin letters?
кот пум. 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?
Kot, "press", you have met, and pum, "button", too; the tone is what separates them from "rule". The button on the site is pressed with the same verb. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.