ทำ ให้ ดี ขึ้น
“ทำ ให้ ดี ขึ้น” (тхам хай ди кхын) — to improve (a result) in Thai. Phrase, level B1. Literally "make it become better": Thai does not name the result — it simply makes it better. The rise means "upward": everything good in Thai rises. In a live sentence: “ต้อง ทำ ให้ ดี ขึ้น” — It must be made better. Written with the characters ท, ำ, ใ, ห, ้, ด, ี, ข, ึ, ้, น. A word from the everyday Thai course, level B1.
In short
| Written in Thai | ทำ ให้ ดี ขึ้น |
| Read in Latin letters | тхам хай ди кхын |
| Translation | to improve (a result) |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
Literally "make it become better": Thai does not name the result — it simply makes it better. The rise means "upward": everything good in Thai rises
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.
- ต้อง ทำ ให้ ดี ขึ้นтонг тхам хай ди кхынIt must be made better
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 improve (a result)” in Thai?
«ทำ ให้ ดี ขึ้น», read “тхам хай ди кхын”. In a live sentence: “ต้อง ทำ ให้ ดี ขึ้น” — It must be made better. Phrase, level B1; written with the characters ท, ำ, ใ, ห, ้, ด, ี, ข, ึ, ้, น.
How is “ทำ ให้ ดี ขึ้น” written in Latin letters?
тхам хай ди кхын. 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 "make it become better": Thai does not name the result — it simply makes it better. The rise means "upward": everything good in Thai rises. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.