ที่ นั่ง ติด ทาง เดิน
“ที่ นั่ง ติด ทาง เดิน” (ти нанг тит таанг дён) — aisle seat in Thai. Noun, level A1. Tit is "to be flush": the seat is pressed to the aisle. The pair of the familiar window seat. In a live sentence: “ขอ ที่ นั่ง ติด ทาง เดิน” — An aisle seat, please. Written with the characters ท, ี, ่, น, ่, ง, ต, ิ, ด, ท, า, ง… A word from the everyday Thai course, level A1.
In short
| Written in Thai | ที่ นั่ง ติด ทาง เดิน |
| Read in Latin letters | ти нанг тит таанг дён |
| Translation | aisle seat |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A1 |
Why it looks that way
Tit is "to be flush": the seat is pressed to the aisle. The pair of the familiar window seat
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.
- ขอ ที่ นั่ง ติด ทาง เดินкхо ти нанг тит таанг дёнAn aisle seat, please
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 “aisle seat” in Thai?
«ที่ นั่ง ติด ทาง เดิน», read “ти нанг тит таанг дён”. In a live sentence: “ขอ ที่ นั่ง ติด ทาง เดิน” — An aisle seat, please. Noun, level A1; written with the characters ท, ี, ่, น, ่, ง, ต, ิ, ด, ท, า, ง…
How is “ที่ นั่ง ติด ทาง เดิน” written in Latin letters?
ти нанг тит таанг дён. 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?
Tit is "to be flush": the seat is pressed to the aisle. The pair of the familiar window seat. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.