ไม่ ดี ต่อ สุขภาพ
“ไม่ ดี ต่อ สุขภาพ” (май ди тё сукпхаап) — unhealthy; bad for health in Thai. Adverb, level A2. Literally "not good for the health": the Thai does not speak in abstractions — he names what it is bad for. Its pair is "good for the health". In a live sentence: “กิน อาหาร ไขมัน ทุก วัน ไม่ ดี ต่อ สุขภาพ” — Eating fatty food every day is bad for the health. A word from the everyday Thai course, level A2.
In short
| Written in Thai | ไม่ ดี ต่อ สุขภาพ |
| Read in Latin letters | май ди тё сукпхаап |
| Translation | unhealthy; bad for health |
| Part of speech | adverb |
| Level | A2 |
Why it looks that way
Literally "not good for the health": the Thai does not speak in abstractions — he names what it is bad for. Its pair is "good for the health"
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.
- กิน อาหาร ไขมัน ทุก วัน ไม่ ดี ต่อ สุขภาพкин ахан кхаман тхук ван май ди тё сукпхаапEating fatty food every day is bad for the health
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 “unhealthy; bad for health” in Thai?
«ไม่ ดี ต่อ สุขภาพ», read “май ди тё сукпхаап”. In a live sentence: “กิน อาหาร ไขมัน ทุก วัน ไม่ ดี ต่อ สุขภาพ” — Eating fatty food every day is bad for the health. Adverb, level A2; written with the characters ไ, ม, ่, ด, ี, ต, ่, อ, ส, ุ, ข, ภ…
How is “ไม่ ดี ต่อ สุขภาพ” written in Latin letters?
май ди тё сукпхаап. 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 "not good for the health": the Thai does not speak in abstractions — he names what it is bad for. Its pair is "good for the health". A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.