น้ำ หนัก พัสดุ
“น้ำ หนัก พัสดุ” (нам нак пхатсаду) — parcel weight in Thai. Noun, level A1. Nam nak, "weight", you know, and phatsadu, "parcel", too. The parcel weight decides how much you will pay at the post. In a live sentence: “น้ำ หนัก พัสดุ นี้ มาก” — This parcel's weight is big. Written with the characters น, ้, ำ, ห, น, ก, พ, ส, ด, ุ. A word from the everyday Thai course, level A1.
In short
| Written in Thai | น้ำ หนัก พัสดุ |
| Read in Latin letters | нам нак пхатсаду |
| Translation | parcel weight |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A1 |
Why it looks that way
Nam nak, "weight", you know, and phatsadu, "parcel", too. The parcel weight decides how much you will pay at the post
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 หนัก พัสดุ นี้ มากнам нак пхатсаду ний макThis parcel's weight is big
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 “parcel weight” in Thai?
«น้ำ หนัก พัสดุ», read “нам нак пхатсаду”. In a live sentence: “น้ำ หนัก พัสดุ นี้ มาก” — This parcel's weight is big. Noun, level A1; written with the characters น, ้, ำ, ห, น, ก, พ, ส, ด, ุ.
How is “น้ำ หนัก พัสดุ” written in Latin letters?
нам нак пхатсаду. 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?
Nam nak, "weight", you know, and phatsadu, "parcel", too. The parcel weight decides how much you will pay at the post. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.