เลข ประจำ ตัว ผู้ เสีย ภาษี
“เลข ประจำ ตัว ผู้ เสีย ภาษี” (лек прачам туа пхуу сиа пхасии) — tax ID number in Thai. Noun, level A2. Literally "the number attached to the tax payer": lek and phasii you know, and sia you have heard as "to break" — the same syllable. It is the first thing one gets; no account opens without it. In a live sentence: “เลข ประจำ ตัว ผู้ เสีย ภาษี อยู่ บน แบบ ภาษี” — The tax ID number is on the tax form.
In short
| Written in Thai | เลข ประจำ ตัว ผู้ เสีย ภาษี |
| Read in Latin letters | лек прачам туа пхуу сиа пхасии |
| Translation | tax ID number |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A2 |
Why it looks that way
Literally "the number attached to the tax payer": lek and phasii you know, and sia you have heard as "to break" — the same syllable. It is the first thing one gets; no account opens without 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.
- เลข ประจำ ตัว ผู้ เสีย ภาษี อยู่ บน แบบ ภาษีлек прачам туа пхуу сиа пхасии ю бон бэп пхасииThe tax ID number is on the tax form
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 “tax ID number” in Thai?
«เลข ประจำ ตัว ผู้ เสีย ภาษี», read “лек прачам туа пхуу сиа пхасии”. In a live sentence: “เลข ประจำ ตัว ผู้ เสีย ภาษี อยู่ บน แบบ ภาษี” — The tax ID number is on the tax form. Noun, level A2; written with the characters เ, ล, ข, ป, ร, ะ, จ, ำ, ต, ว, ผ, ู…
How is “เลข ประจำ ตัว ผู้ เสีย ภาษี” written in Latin letters?
лек прачам туа пхуу сиа пхасии. 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 "the number attached to the tax payer": lek and phasii you know, and sia you have heard as "to break" — the same syllable. It is the first thing one gets; no account opens without it. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.