เมาส์ คอม พิว เตอร์
“เมาส์ คอม พิว เตอร์” (маус кхом пхиу тёр) — computer mouse in Thai. Noun, level A1. From the English mouse; the final letter is the same "s" as in the grapefruit word, and the computer you know. In a live sentence: “เมาส์ คอม พิว เตอร์ ไม่ ทำ งาน” — The mouse does not work. Written with the characters เ, ม, า, ส, ค, อ, ม, พ, ิ, ว, เ, ต… A word from the everyday Thai course, level A1.
In short
| Written in Thai | เมาส์ คอม พิว เตอร์ |
| Read in Latin letters | маус кхом пхиу тёр |
| Translation | computer mouse |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A1 |
Why it looks that way
From the English mouse; the final letter is the same "s" as in the grapefruit word, and the computer you know
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.
- เมาส์ คอม พิว เตอร์ ไม่ ทำ งานмаус кхом пхиу тёр май тхам нгаанThe mouse does not work
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 “computer mouse” in Thai?
«เมาส์ คอม พิว เตอร์», read “маус кхом пхиу тёр”. In a live sentence: “เมาส์ คอม พิว เตอร์ ไม่ ทำ งาน” — The mouse does not work. Noun, level A1; written with the characters เ, ม, า, ส, ค, อ, ม, พ, ิ, ว, เ, ต…
How is “เมาส์ คอม พิว เตอร์” written in Latin letters?
маус кхом пхиу тёр. 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?
From the English mouse; the final letter is the same "s" as in the grapefruit word, and the computer you know. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.