ผ่าน ป้าย
“ผ่าน ป้าย” (паан паай) — to miss one's stop in Thai. Phrase, level B1. The pass is to pass by, along and beyond. Missing the stop — Thai says it shortly: "passed the stop already". In a live sentence: “ผม ผ่าน ป้าย ไป แล้ว” — I missed my stop. Written with the characters ผ, ่, า, น, ป, ้, า, ย. A word from the everyday Thai course, level B1.
In short
| Written in Thai | ผ่าน ป้าย |
| Read in Latin letters | паан паай |
| Translation | to miss one's stop |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
The pass is to pass by, along and beyond. Missing the stop — Thai says it shortly: "passed the stop already"
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.
- ผม ผ่าน ป้าย ไป แล้วпхом паан паай пай лаэоI missed my stop
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 miss one's stop” in Thai?
«ผ่าน ป้าย», read “паан паай”. In a live sentence: “ผม ผ่าน ป้าย ไป แล้ว” — I missed my stop. Phrase, level B1; written with the characters ผ, ่, า, น, ป, ้, า, ย.
How is “ผ่าน ป้าย” written in Latin letters?
паан паай. 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?
The pass is to pass by, along and beyond. Missing the stop — Thai says it shortly: "passed the stop already". A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.