ไป เยี่ยม
“ไป เยี่ยม” (пай йиам) — to visit (someone) in Thai. Verb, level B1. Literally "go visit": the visit is both a visit and "excellent" — the same as in your "very excellent". To visit grandma is to go with exactly this word. In a live sentence: “วัน เสาร์ ไป เยี่ยม คุณ ยาย” — On Saturday we will go visit grandma. Written with the characters ไ, ป, เ, ย, ี, ่, ย, ม. A word from the everyday Thai course, level B1.
In short
| Written in Thai | ไป เยี่ยม |
| Read in Latin letters | пай йиам |
| Translation | to visit (someone) |
| Part of speech | verb |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
Literally "go visit": the visit is both a visit and "excellent" — the same as in your "very excellent". To visit grandma is to go with exactly this word
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 เสาร์ ไป เยี่ยม คุณ ยายван сао пай йиам кхун йаайOn Saturday we will go visit grandma
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 “to visit (someone)” in Thai?
«ไป เยี่ยม», read “пай йиам”. In a live sentence: “วัน เสาร์ ไป เยี่ยม คุณ ยาย” — On Saturday we will go visit grandma. Verb, level B1; written with the characters ไ, ป, เ, ย, ี, ่, ย, ม.
How is “ไป เยี่ยม” written in Latin letters?
пай йиам. 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 "go visit": the visit is both a visit and "excellent" — the same as in your "very excellent". To visit grandma is to go with exactly this word. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.