เล็ก เกิน ไป
“เล็ก เกิน ไป” (лэк кын пай) — too small in Thai. Phrase, level A2. The same "beyond measure" formula on "small". Change the adjective — and you get a new pair: the same move makes "too long". In a live sentence: “ห้อง ลอง เสื้อ เล็ก เกิน ไป” — The fitting room is too small. Written with the characters เ, ล, ก, เ, ก, ิ, น, ไ, ป. A word from the everyday Thai course, level A2.
In short
| Written in Thai | เล็ก เกิน ไป |
| Read in Latin letters | лэк кын пай |
| Translation | too small |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | A2 |
Why it looks that way
The same "beyond measure" formula on "small". Change the adjective — and you get a new pair: the same move makes "too long"
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.
- ห้อง ลอง เสื้อ เล็ก เกิน ไปхонг лонг сыа лэк кын пайThe fitting room is too small
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 “too small” in Thai?
«เล็ก เกิน ไป», read “лэк кын пай”. In a live sentence: “ห้อง ลอง เสื้อ เล็ก เกิน ไป” — The fitting room is too small. Phrase, level A2; written with the characters เ, ล, ก, เ, ก, ิ, น, ไ, ป.
How is “เล็ก เกิน ไป” written in Latin letters?
лэк кын пай. 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 same "beyond measure" formula on "small". Change the adjective — and you get a new pair: the same move makes "too long". A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.