เป็น ไป ได้
“เป็น ไป ได้” (пен пай дай) — possible in Thai. Adjective, level A2. You have met pen pai dai as "possibly"; about a plan or a way out the same phrase means "possible". In a live sentence: “ทาง นี้ เป็น ไป ได้ ไหม” — Is this way possible? Written with the characters เ, ป, น, ไ, ป, ไ, ด, ้. A word from the everyday Thai course, level A2.
In short
| Written in Thai | เป็น ไป ได้ |
| Read in Latin letters | пен пай дай |
| Translation | possible |
| Part of speech | adjective |
| Level | A2 |
Why it looks that way
You have met pen pai dai as "possibly"; about a plan or a way out the same phrase means "possible"
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.
- ทาง นี้ เป็น ไป ได้ ไหมтаанг ний пен пай дай майIs this way possible?
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 “possible” in Thai?
«เป็น ไป ได้», read “пен пай дай”. In a live sentence: “ทาง นี้ เป็น ไป ได้ ไหม” — Is this way possible? Adjective, level A2; written with the characters เ, ป, น, ไ, ป, ไ, ด, ้.
How is “เป็น ไป ได้” written in Latin letters?
пен пай дай. 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?
You have met pen pai dai as "possibly"; about a plan or a way out the same phrase means "possible". A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.