เงิน ไม่ พอ
“เงิน ไม่ พอ” (нгын май пхо) — there is not enough money in Thai. Phrase, level A2. The pair of "enough" with one particle of negation. At the market, after "how much", this is the first phrase of the haggle. In a live sentence: “เดือน นี้ เงิน ไม่ พอ” — This month there is not enough money. Written with the characters เ, ง, ิ, น, ไ, ม, ่, พ, อ. A word from the everyday Thai course, level A2.
In short
| Written in Thai | เงิน ไม่ พอ |
| Read in Latin letters | нгын май пхо |
| Translation | there is not enough money |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | A2 |
Why it looks that way
The pair of "enough" with one particle of negation. At the market, after "how much", this is the first phrase of the haggle
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.
- เดือน นี้ เงิน ไม่ พอдыан ний нгын май пхоThis month there is not enough money
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 “there is not enough money” in Thai?
«เงิน ไม่ พอ», read “нгын май пхо”. In a live sentence: “เดือน นี้ เงิน ไม่ พอ” — This month there is not enough money. Phrase, level A2; written with the characters เ, ง, ิ, น, ไ, ม, ่, พ, อ.
How is “เงิน ไม่ พอ” written in Latin letters?
нгын май пхо. 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?
The pair of "enough" with one particle of negation. At the market, after "how much", this is the first phrase of the haggle. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.