น้ำ แข็ง ละ ลาย
“น้ำ แข็ง ละ ลาย” (нам кхэнг ла лаай) — melting of the ice in Thai. Phrase, level B1. Literally "solid water dissolves": the dissolving is how sugar goes in tea. The ice melts — and the sea level rises. In a live sentence: “น้ำ แข็ง ละ ลาย เร็ว กว่า เดิม” — The ice is melting faster than before. Written with the characters น, ้, ำ, แ, ข, ง, ล, ะ, ล, า, ย. A word from the everyday Thai course, level B1.
In short
| Written in Thai | น้ำ แข็ง ละ ลาย |
| Read in Latin letters | нам кхэнг ла лаай |
| Translation | melting of the ice |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
Literally "solid water dissolves": the dissolving is how sugar goes in tea. The ice melts — and the sea level rises
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.
- น้ำ แข็ง ละ ลาย เร็ว กว่า เดิมнам кхэнг ла лаай рэо кваа дымThe ice is melting faster than before
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 “melting of the ice” in Thai?
«น้ำ แข็ง ละ ลาย», read “нам кхэнг ла лаай”. In a live sentence: “น้ำ แข็ง ละ ลาย เร็ว กว่า เดิม” — The ice is melting faster than before. Phrase, level B1; written with the characters น, ้, ำ, แ, ข, ง, ล, ะ, ล, า, ย.
How is “น้ำ แข็ง ละ ลาย” written in Latin letters?
нам кхэнг ла лаай. 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 "solid water dissolves": the dissolving is how sugar goes in tea. The ice melts — and the sea level rises. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.