ปริมาณ
“ปริมาณ” (примаан) — amount; quantity in Thai. Noun, level A2. The quantity of substance and things: water, people, work. Do not confuse with approximately — one letter differs there, another here, and they are different words. In a live sentence: “ปริมาณ ฝน ปี นี้ มาก กว่า ปี ที่ แล้ว” — The amount of rain this year is more than last year. Written with the characters ป, ร, ิ, ม, า, ณ. A word from the everyday Thai course, level A2.
In short
| Written in Thai | ปริมาณ |
| Read in Latin letters | примаан |
| Translation | amount; quantity |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A2 |
Why it looks that way
The quantity of substance and things: water, people, work. Do not confuse with approximately — one letter differs there, another here, and they are different words
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.
- ปริมาณ ฝน ปี นี้ มาก กว่า ปี ที่ แล้วпримаан фон пий ний мак кваа пий ти лаэоThe amount of rain this year is more than last year
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 “amount; quantity” in Thai?
«ปริมาณ», read “примаан”. In a live sentence: “ปริมาณ ฝน ปี นี้ มาก กว่า ปี ที่ แล้ว” — The amount of rain this year is more than last year. Noun, level A2; written with the characters ป, ร, ิ, ม, า, ณ.
How is “ปริมาณ” written in Latin letters?
примаан. 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 quantity of substance and things: water, people, work. Do not confuse with approximately — one letter differs there, another here, and they are different words. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.