นัก ออก แบบ
“นัก ออก แบบ” (нак оок пхэп) — designer in Thai. Noun, level B1. Literally "scholar of bringing out the pattern": the pattern serves for sample and drawing together. Clothes, websites and houses are all drawn by him. In a live sentence: “นัก ออก แบบ วาด บ้าน ใหม่” — The designer is drawing a new house. Written with the characters น, ก, อ, อ, ก, แ, บ, บ. A word from the everyday Thai course, level B1.
In short
| Written in Thai | นัก ออก แบบ |
| Read in Latin letters | нак оок пхэп |
| Translation | designer |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
Literally "scholar of bringing out the pattern": the pattern serves for sample and drawing together. Clothes, websites and houses are all drawn by him
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.
- นัก ออก แบบ วาด บ้าน ใหม่нак оок пхэп ваат бан майThe designer is drawing a new house
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 “designer” in Thai?
«นัก ออก แบบ», read “нак оок пхэп”. In a live sentence: “นัก ออก แบบ วาด บ้าน ใหม่” — The designer is drawing a new house. Noun, level B1; written with the characters น, ก, อ, อ, ก, แ, บ, บ.
How is “นัก ออก แบบ” written in Latin letters?
нак оок пхэп. 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 "scholar of bringing out the pattern": the pattern serves for sample and drawing together. Clothes, websites and houses are all drawn by him. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.