แผ่น กระดาษ
“แผ่น กระดาษ” (пхэн крадаат) — sheet of paper in Thai. Noun, level A1. Kradaat, "paper", you know; phaen is the classifier for everything flat: a sheet, a packet, a tile. A sheet of paper is "paper-sheet". In a live sentence: “ผม เขียน จดหมาย บน แผ่น กระดาษ” — I write a letter on a sheet of paper. Written with the characters แ, ผ, ่, น, ก, ร, ะ, ด, า, ษ. A word from the everyday Thai course, level A1.
In short
| Written in Thai | แผ่น กระดาษ |
| Read in Latin letters | пхэн крадаат |
| Translation | sheet of paper |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A1 |
Why it looks that way
Kradaat, "paper", you know; phaen is the classifier for everything flat: a sheet, a packet, a tile. A sheet of paper is "paper-sheet"
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 เขียน จดหมาย บน แผ่น กระดาษпхом кхиан джотмаай бон пхэн крадаатI write a letter on a sheet of paper
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 “sheet of paper” in Thai?
«แผ่น กระดาษ», read “пхэн крадаат”. In a live sentence: “ผม เขียน จดหมาย บน แผ่น กระดาษ” — I write a letter on a sheet of paper. Noun, level A1; written with the characters แ, ผ, ่, น, ก, ร, ะ, ด, า, ษ.
How is “แผ่น กระดาษ” written in Latin letters?
пхэн крадаат. 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?
Kradaat, "paper", you know; phaen is the classifier for everything flat: a sheet, a packet, a tile. A sheet of paper is "paper-sheet". A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.