ผ่าน
“ผ่าน” (паан) — through; across in Thai. Preposition, level B1. To pass through and simply past at once: light through the window, a path through the city. You knew it in passing a stop and passing an exam. In a live sentence: “แสง ผ่าน หน้า ต่าง เข้า มา” — Light passes through the window inside. Written with the characters ผ, ่, า, น. A word from the everyday Thai course, level B1.
In short
| Written in Thai | ผ่าน |
| Read in Latin letters | паан |
| Translation | through; across |
| Part of speech | preposition |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
To pass through and simply past at once: light through the window, a path through the city. You knew it in passing a stop and passing an exam
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.
- แสง ผ่าน หน้า ต่าง เข้า มาсэнг паан наа танг као маLight passes through the window inside
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 “through; across” in Thai?
«ผ่าน», read “паан”. In a live sentence: “แสง ผ่าน หน้า ต่าง เข้า มา” — Light passes through the window inside. Preposition, level B1; written with the characters ผ, ่, า, น.
How is “ผ่าน” written in Latin letters?
паан. 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?
To pass through and simply past at once: light through the window, a path through the city. You knew it in passing a stop and passing an exam. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.