ซ่อน
“ซ่อน” (сон) — to hide in Thai. Verb, level A1. To hide so that it is not found: keys, a present — and one can hide oneself too. The tone falls. In a live sentence: “เด็ก ซ่อน ของ ใน ตู้” — The child hides things in the cupboard. Written with the characters ซ, ่, อ, น. A word from the everyday Thai course, level A1.
In short
| Written in Thai | ซ่อน |
| Read in Latin letters | сон |
| Translation | to hide |
| Part of speech | verb |
| Level | A1 |
Why it looks that way
To hide so that it is not found: keys, a present — and one can hide oneself too. The tone falls
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.
- เด็ก ซ่อน ของ ใน ตู้дек сон кхонг наи тууThe child hides things in the cupboard
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 hide” in Thai?
«ซ่อน», read “сон”. In a live sentence: “เด็ก ซ่อน ของ ใน ตู้” — The child hides things in the cupboard. Verb, level A1; written with the characters ซ, ่, อ, น.
How is “ซ่อน” written in Latin letters?
сон. 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?
To hide so that it is not found: keys, a present — and one can hide oneself too. The tone falls. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.