ผล กระ ทบ ของ คน
“ผล กระ ทบ ของ คน” (пон крап топ кхонг кхон) — human impact in Thai. Phrase, level B1. Literally "consequences of man": the trace a person leaves in nature. Both words you know: consequences and affect. In a live sentence: “ผล กระ ทบ ของ คน ต่อ ป่า มาก” — Human impact on the forest is great. Written with the characters ผ, ล, ก, ร, ะ, ท, บ, ข, อ, ง, ค, น. A word from the everyday Thai course, level B1.
In short
| Written in Thai | ผล กระ ทบ ของ คน |
| Read in Latin letters | пон крап топ кхонг кхон |
| Translation | human impact |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
Literally "consequences of man": the trace a person leaves in nature. Both words you know: consequences and affect
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.
- ผล กระ ทบ ของ คน ต่อ ป่า มากпон крап топ кхонг кхон тхё паа макHuman impact on the forest is great
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 “human impact” in Thai?
«ผล กระ ทบ ของ คน», read “пон крап топ кхонг кхон”. In a live sentence: “ผล กระ ทบ ของ คน ต่อ ป่า มาก” — Human impact on the forest is great. Phrase, level B1; written with the characters ผ, ล, ก, ร, ะ, ท, บ, ข, อ, ง, ค, น.
How is “ผล กระ ทบ ของ คน” written in Latin letters?
пон крап топ кхонг кхон. 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?
Literally "consequences of man": the trace a person leaves in nature. Both words you know: consequences and affect. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.