ปัด เศษ
“ปัด เศษ” (пат сээт) — to round off (a number) in Thai. Verb, level B1. Literally "sweep away the fragments": the sweeping brushes, and the fragment is from this very unit. The tail of the number was swept — out came a round one. In a live sentence: “ปัด เศษ เป็น ร้อย แล้ว จ่าย ง่าย กว่า” — Let us round to a hundred, easier to pay. Written with the characters ป, ด, เ, ศ, ษ. A word from the everyday Thai course, level B1.
In short
| Written in Thai | ปัด เศษ |
| Read in Latin letters | пат сээт |
| Translation | to round off (a number) |
| Part of speech | verb |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
Literally "sweep away the fragments": the sweeping brushes, and the fragment is from this very unit. The tail of the number was swept — out came a round one
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 เศษ เป็น ร้อย แล้ว จ่าย ง่าย กว่าпат сээт пен рой лаэо джай нгаай квааLet us round to a hundred, easier to pay
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 round off (a number)” in Thai?
«ปัด เศษ», read “пат сээт”. In a live sentence: “ปัด เศษ เป็น ร้อย แล้ว จ่าย ง่าย กว่า” — Let us round to a hundred, easier to pay. Verb, level B1; written with the characters ป, ด, เ, ศ, ษ.
How is “ปัด เศษ” written in Latin letters?
пат сээт. 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 "sweep away the fragments": the sweeping brushes, and the fragment is from this very unit. The tail of the number was swept — out came a round one. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.