แสตมป์
“แสตมป์” (сатамп) — stamp (postal) in Thai. Noun, level A2. English stamp, read "satamp". Postal stamps in Thailand are bought at the post — paisanii, which you know. In a live sentence: “แสตมป์ ราคา เท่า ไหร่” — How much is the stamp? Written with the characters แ, ส, ต, ม, ป. A word from the everyday Thai course, level A2.
In short
| Written in Thai | แสตมป์ |
| Read in Latin letters | сатамп |
| Translation | stamp (postal) |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A2 |
Why it looks that way
English stamp, read "satamp". Postal stamps in Thailand are bought at the post — paisanii, which you know
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.
- แสตมป์ ราคา เท่า ไหร่сатамп ракхаа тао райHow much is the stamp?
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 “stamp (postal)” in Thai?
«แสตมป์», read “сатамп”. In a live sentence: “แสตมป์ ราคา เท่า ไหร่” — How much is the stamp? Noun, level A2; written with the characters แ, ส, ต, ม, ป.
How is “แสตมป์” written in Latin letters?
сатамп. 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?
English stamp, read "satamp". Postal stamps in Thailand are bought at the post — paisanii, which you know. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.