เลิก สูบ บุหรี่
“เลิก สูบ บุหรี่” (лёк сууп бури) — to quit smoking in Thai. Phrase, level B1. The quit is the one from "school lets out". Then comes the deed itself: quit smoking, quit eating sweets. In a live sentence: “พ่อ เลิก สูบ บุหรี่ แล้ว” — Dad has already quit smoking. Written with the characters เ, ล, ิ, ก, ส, ู, บ, บ, ุ, ห, ร, ี… A word from the everyday Thai course, level B1.
In short
| Written in Thai | เลิก สูบ บุหรี่ |
| Read in Latin letters | лёк сууп бури |
| Translation | to quit smoking |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
The quit is the one from "school lets out". Then comes the deed itself: quit smoking, quit eating sweets
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 เลิก สูบ บุหรี่ แล้วпхё лёк сууп бури лаэоDad has already quit smoking
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 quit smoking” in Thai?
«เลิก สูบ บุหรี่», read “лёк сууп бури”. In a live sentence: “พ่อ เลิก สูบ บุหรี่ แล้ว” — Dad has already quit smoking. Phrase, level B1; written with the characters เ, ล, ิ, ก, ส, ู, บ, บ, ุ, ห, ร, ี…
How is “เลิก สูบ บุหรี่” written in Latin letters?
лёк сууп бури. 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 quit is the one from "school lets out". Then comes the deed itself: quit smoking, quit eating sweets. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.