เซ็น สัญญา
“เซ็น สัญญา” (сэн санйа) — to sign the contract in Thai. Phrase, level A2. The sign verb is from the English sign: a short verb, unlike the bookish "signature". One signs at the bottom of the sheet, where they asked. In a live sentence: “เซ็น สัญญา ตรง นี้” — Sign the contract here. Written with the characters เ, ซ, น, ส, ญ, ญ, า. A word from the everyday Thai course, level A2.
In short
| Written in Thai | เซ็น สัญญา |
| Read in Latin letters | сэн санйа |
| Translation | to sign the contract |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | A2 |
Why it looks that way
The sign verb is from the English sign: a short verb, unlike the bookish "signature". One signs at the bottom of the sheet, where they asked
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.
- เซ็น สัญญา ตรง นี้сэн санйа тронг нийSign the contract here
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 sign the contract” in Thai?
«เซ็น สัญญา», read “сэн санйа”. In a live sentence: “เซ็น สัญญา ตรง นี้” — Sign the contract here. Phrase, level A2; written with the characters เ, ซ, น, ส, ญ, ญ, า.
How is “เซ็น สัญญา” written in Latin letters?
сэн санйа. 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 sign verb is from the English sign: a short verb, unlike the bookish "signature". One signs at the bottom of the sheet, where they asked. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.