เลิก ทำ
“เลิก ทำ” (лёк тхам) — to stop doing; to quit in Thai. Verb, level B1. The quit you know from quitting smoking and breaking up — here it drops the business: finished, and I am not continuing. In a live sentence: “เลิก ทำ แล้ว อย่า คิด ถึง มัน อีก” — He stopped — do not think about it anymore. Written with the characters เ, ล, ิ, ก, ท, ำ. A word from the everyday Thai course, level B1.
In short
| Written in Thai | เลิก ทำ |
| Read in Latin letters | лёк тхам |
| Translation | to stop doing; to quit |
| Part of speech | verb |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
The quit you know from quitting smoking and breaking up — here it drops the business: finished, and I am not continuing
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.
- เลิก ทำ แล้ว อย่า คิด ถึง มัน อีกлёк тхам лаэо йа кхит тынг ман икHe stopped — do not think about it anymore
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 stop doing; to quit” in Thai?
«เลิก ทำ», read “лёк тхам”. In a live sentence: “เลิก ทำ แล้ว อย่า คิด ถึง มัน อีก” — He stopped — do not think about it anymore. Verb, level B1; written with the characters เ, ล, ิ, ก, ท, ำ.
How is “เลิก ทำ” written in Latin letters?
лёк тхам. 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 you know from quitting smoking and breaking up — here it drops the business: finished, and I am not continuing. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.