ปัด หน้า จอ
“ปัด หน้า จอ” (пат наа джоо) — to swipe the screen in Thai. Phrase, level A1. Literally "brush the face of the screen": joo, the screen, you know. The finger is not named in the word — the gesture is obvious; "swipe up" is said with "up". In a live sentence: “ปัด หน้า จอ ขึ้น” — Swipe up the screen. Written with the characters ป, ด, ห, น, ้, า, จ, อ. A word from the everyday Thai course, level A1.
In short
| Written in Thai | ปัด หน้า จอ |
| Read in Latin letters | пат наа джоо |
| Translation | to swipe the screen |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | A1 |
Why it looks that way
Literally "brush the face of the screen": joo, the screen, you know. The finger is not named in the word — the gesture is obvious; "swipe up" is said with "up"
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.
- ปัด หน้า จอ ขึ้นпат наа джоо кхынSwipe up the screen
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 swipe the screen” in Thai?
«ปัด หน้า จอ», read “пат наа джоо”. In a live sentence: “ปัด หน้า จอ ขึ้น” — Swipe up the screen. Phrase, level A1; written with the characters ป, ด, ห, น, ้, า, จ, อ.
How is “ปัด หน้า จอ” written in Latin letters?
пат наа джоо. 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 "brush the face of the screen": joo, the screen, you know. The finger is not named in the word — the gesture is obvious; "swipe up" is said with "up". A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.