ทำ ให้ เป็น พิษ
“ทำ ให้ เป็น พิษ” (тхам хай пен пхит) — to poison in Thai. Verb, level B1. Literally "make poisoned": the Thai describes poisoning as an event. The poison is what got into the water, the air or the food. In a live sentence: “ควัน ท่อ ทำ ให้ เป็น พิษ” — The exhaust poisons everything around. Written with the characters ท, ำ, ใ, ห, ้, เ, ป, น, พ, ิ, ษ. A word from the everyday Thai course, level B1.
In short
| Written in Thai | ทำ ให้ เป็น พิษ |
| Read in Latin letters | тхам хай пен пхит |
| Translation | to poison |
| Part of speech | verb |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
Literally "make poisoned": the Thai describes poisoning as an event. The poison is what got into the water, the air or the food
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.
- ควัน ท่อ ทำ ให้ เป็น พิษкхуан тхо тхам хай пен пхитThe exhaust poisons everything around
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 poison” in Thai?
«ทำ ให้ เป็น พิษ», read “тхам хай пен пхит”. In a live sentence: “ควัน ท่อ ทำ ให้ เป็น พิษ” — The exhaust poisons everything around. Verb, level B1; written with the characters ท, ำ, ใ, ห, ้, เ, ป, น, พ, ิ, ษ.
How is “ทำ ให้ เป็น พิษ” written in Latin letters?
тхам хай пен пхит. 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 poisoned": the Thai describes poisoning as an event. The poison is what got into the water, the air or the food. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.