แสดง ความ อาลัย
“แสดง ความ อาลัย” (садаэнг кхуам аалай) — condolences in Thai. Noun, level B1. Literally "express the feeling of reluctance to let go": the feeling does not want to part. Condolences the Thai expresses rather than speaks. In a live sentence: “เพื่อน โทร มา แสดง ความ อาลัย” — A friend called to express condolences. Written with the characters แ, ส, ด, ง, ค, ว, า, ม, อ, า, ล, ย. A word from the everyday Thai course, level B1.
In short
| Written in Thai | แสดง ความ อาลัย |
| Read in Latin letters | садаэнг кхуам аалай |
| Translation | condolences |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
Literally "express the feeling of reluctance to let go": the feeling does not want to part. Condolences the Thai expresses rather than speaks
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.
- เพื่อน โทร มา แสดง ความ อาลัยпхиуан тор ма садаэнг кхуам аалайA friend called to express condolences
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 “condolences” in Thai?
«แสดง ความ อาลัย», read “садаэнг кхуам аалай”. In a live sentence: “เพื่อน โทร มา แสดง ความ อาลัย” — A friend called to express condolences. Noun, level B1; written with the characters แ, ส, ด, ง, ค, ว, า, ม, อ, า, ล, ย.
How is “แสดง ความ อาลัย” written in Latin letters?
садаэнг кхуам аалай. 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 "express the feeling of reluctance to let go": the feeling does not want to part. Condolences the Thai expresses rather than speaks. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.