ที่ ปัด น้ำ ฝน
“ที่ ปัด น้ำ ฝน” (ти пат нам фон) — windshield wipers in Thai. Noun, level A1. Literally "that which drives off rain water": fon, "rain", you know. In a downpour without wipers the road is invisible — the first check of a car. In a live sentence: “ฝน ตก เปิด ที่ ปัด น้ำ ฝน” — It is raining — turn on the wipers. Written with the characters ท, ี, ่, ป, ด, น, ้, ำ, ฝ, น.
In short
| Written in Thai | ที่ ปัด น้ำ ฝน |
| Read in Latin letters | ти пат нам фон |
| Translation | windshield wipers |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A1 |
Why it looks that way
Literally "that which drives off rain water": fon, "rain", you know. In a downpour without wipers the road is invisible — the first check of a car
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.
- ฝน ตก เปิด ที่ ปัด น้ำ ฝนфон ток пёт ти пат нам фонIt is raining — turn on the wipers
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 “windshield wipers” in Thai?
«ที่ ปัด น้ำ ฝน», read “ти пат нам фон”. In a live sentence: “ฝน ตก เปิด ที่ ปัด น้ำ ฝน” — It is raining — turn on the wipers. Noun, level A1; written with the characters ท, ี, ่, ป, ด, น, ้, ำ, ฝ, น.
How is “ที่ ปัด น้ำ ฝน” written in Latin letters?
ти пат нам фон. 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 "that which drives off rain water": fon, "rain", you know. In a downpour without wipers the road is invisible — the first check of a car. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.