เป็น สาม เท่า
“เป็น สาม เท่า” (пен саам тао) — to triple in Thai. Adverb, level B1. Built like doubling, only the number differs: growth, a price, a queue — all can triple in a week. In a live sentence: “คน มา เป็น สาม เท่า ตอน สุด อาทิตย์” — Three times as many people come at the end of the week. Written with the characters เ, ป, น, ส, า, ม, เ, ท, ่, า. A word from the everyday Thai course, level B1.
In short
| Written in Thai | เป็น สาม เท่า |
| Read in Latin letters | пен саам тао |
| Translation | to triple |
| Part of speech | adverb |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
Built like doubling, only the number differs: growth, a price, a queue — all can triple in a week
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.
- คน มา เป็น สาม เท่า ตอน สุด อาทิตย์кхон ма пен саам тао тон сут атхитThree times as many people come at the end of the week
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 triple” in Thai?
«เป็น สาม เท่า», read “пен саам тао”. In a live sentence: “คน มา เป็น สาม เท่า ตอน สุด อาทิตย์” — Three times as many people come at the end of the week. Adverb, level B1; written with the characters เ, ป, น, ส, า, ม, เ, ท, ่, า.
How is “เป็น สาม เท่า” written in Latin letters?
пен саам тао. 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?
Built like doubling, only the number differs: growth, a price, a queue — all can triple in a week. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.