เพิ่ม
“เพิ่ม” (пхём) — to increase; to add to in Thai. Verb, level B1. You knew the add in adding water — increase and addition are one motion in Thai. Increase a price, a portion, a speed. In a live sentence: “เพิ่ม จำ นวน คน ใน ทีม อีก สอง” — Increase the number of people on the team by two more. Written with the characters เ, พ, ิ, ่, ม. A word from the everyday Thai course, level B1.
In short
| Written in Thai | เพิ่ม |
| Read in Latin letters | пхём |
| Translation | to increase; to add to |
| Part of speech | verb |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
You knew the add in adding water — increase and addition are one motion in Thai. Increase a price, a portion, a speed
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.
- เพิ่ม จำ นวน คน ใน ทีม อีก สองпхём джам нуан кхон наи тхим ик сонгIncrease the number of people on the team by two more
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 increase; to add to” in Thai?
«เพิ่ม», read “пхём”. In a live sentence: “เพิ่ม จำ นวน คน ใน ทีม อีก สอง” — Increase the number of people on the team by two more. Verb, level B1; written with the characters เ, พ, ิ, ่, ม.
How is “เพิ่ม” written in Latin letters?
пхём. 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 knew the add in adding water — increase and addition are one motion in Thai. Increase a price, a portion, a speed. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.