เหนื่อย
“เหนื่อย” (ныай) — tired in Thai. Adjective, level A1. Tiredness from work, from the road, from the heat. "Not tired" is mai nyai — the usual answer to a caring question. In a live sentence: “วัน นี้ เหนื่อย มาก” — I am very tired today. Written with the characters เ, ห, น, ื, ่, อ, ย. A word from the everyday Thai course, level A1.
In short
| Written in Thai | เหนื่อย |
| Read in Latin letters | ныай |
| Translation | tired |
| Part of speech | adjective |
| Level | A1 |
Why it looks that way
Tiredness from work, from the road, from the heat. "Not tired" is mai nyai — the usual answer to a caring question
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.
- วัน นี้ เหนื่อย มากван ний ныай макI am very tired today
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 “tired” in Thai?
«เหนื่อย», read “ныай”. In a live sentence: “วัน นี้ เหนื่อย มาก” — I am very tired today. Adjective, level A1; written with the characters เ, ห, น, ื, ่, อ, ย.
How is “เหนื่อย” written in Latin letters?
ныай. 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?
Tiredness from work, from the road, from the heat. "Not tired" is mai nyai — the usual answer to a caring question. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.