ลำ ต้น
“ลำ ต้น” (лам тон) — stem; stalk in Thai. Noun, level B1. Literally "trunk-shaft": both the stem of a flower and the trunk of a young tree. The trunk is the counter for stems, you know it. In a live sentence: “ลำ ต้น ดอก ไม้ ยาว เท่า กับ แขน” — The stem of the flower is as long as an arm. Written with the characters ล, ำ, ต, ้, น. A word from the everyday Thai course, level B1.
In short
| Written in Thai | ลำ ต้น |
| Read in Latin letters | лам тон |
| Translation | stem; stalk |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
Literally "trunk-shaft": both the stem of a flower and the trunk of a young tree. The trunk is the counter for stems, you know it
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.
- ลำ ต้น ดอก ไม้ ยาว เท่า กับ แขนлам тон док май йао тао кап кхэнThe stem of the flower is as long as an arm
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 “stem; stalk” in Thai?
«ลำ ต้น», read “лам тон”. In a live sentence: “ลำ ต้น ดอก ไม้ ยาว เท่า กับ แขน” — The stem of the flower is as long as an arm. Noun, level B1; written with the characters ล, ำ, ต, ้, น.
How is “ลำ ต้น” written in Latin letters?
лам тон. 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?
Literally "trunk-shaft": both the stem of a flower and the trunk of a young tree. The trunk is the counter for stems, you know it. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.