สมุด บัญชี เงิน ฝาก
“สมุด บัญชี เงิน ฝาก” (сомут банчии нгын фаак) — passbook; account statement book in Thai. Noun, level B1. Literally "notebook of the deposit": the bank passbook into which the movement of money is printed. In Thailand it is still asked for at every visit. In a live sentence: “สมุด บัญชี เงิน ฝาก อยู่ ที่ บ้าน” — The passbook is at home. Written with the characters ส, ม, ุ, ด, บ, ญ, ช, ี, เ, ง, ิ, น…
In short
| Written in Thai | สมุด บัญชี เงิน ฝาก |
| Read in Latin letters | сомут банчии нгын фаак |
| Translation | passbook; account statement book |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
Literally "notebook of the deposit": the bank passbook into which the movement of money is printed. In Thailand it is still asked for at every visit
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.
- สมุด บัญชี เงิน ฝาก อยู่ ที่ บ้านсомут банчии нгын фаак ю ти банThe passbook is at home
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 “passbook; account statement book” in Thai?
«สมุด บัญชี เงิน ฝาก», read “сомут банчии нгын фаак”. In a live sentence: “สมุด บัญชี เงิน ฝาก อยู่ ที่ บ้าน” — The passbook is at home. Noun, level B1; written with the characters ส, ม, ุ, ด, บ, ญ, ช, ี, เ, ง, ิ, น…
How is “สมุด บัญชี เงิน ฝาก” written in Latin letters?
сомут банчии нгын фаак. 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 "notebook of the deposit": the bank passbook into which the movement of money is printed. In Thailand it is still asked for at every visit. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.