ซัก เสื้อ ผ้า
“ซัก เสื้อ ผ้า” (сак сыа пхаа) — to wash clothes in Thai. Verb, level A1. The familiar sak, "wash", here with clothing — the full chunk about laundry. The laundromat is "raan sak phaa", you know it. In a live sentence: “แม่ ซัก เสื้อ ผ้า ทุก วัน” — Mom washes the clothes every day. Written with the characters ซ, ก, เ, ส, ื, ้, อ, ผ, ้, า. A word from the everyday Thai course, level A1.
In short
| Written in Thai | ซัก เสื้อ ผ้า |
| Read in Latin letters | сак сыа пхаа |
| Translation | to wash clothes |
| Part of speech | verb |
| Level | A1 |
Why it looks that way
The familiar sak, "wash", here with clothing — the full chunk about laundry. The laundromat is "raan sak phaa", you know it
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.
- แม่ ซัก เสื้อ ผ้า ทุก วันмэ сак сыа пхаа тхук ванMom washes the clothes every day
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 wash clothes” in Thai?
«ซัก เสื้อ ผ้า», read “сак сыа пхаа”. In a live sentence: “แม่ ซัก เสื้อ ผ้า ทุก วัน” — Mom washes the clothes every day. Verb, level A1; written with the characters ซ, ก, เ, ส, ื, ้, อ, ผ, ้, า.
How is “ซัก เสื้อ ผ้า” written in Latin letters?
сак сыа пхаа. 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 familiar sak, "wash", here with clothing — the full chunk about laundry. The laundromat is "raan sak phaa", you know it. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.