เติม น้ำ มัน
“เติม น้ำ มัน” (тёэм нам ман) — to fill up (with fuel) in Thai. Phrase, level A1. Literally "top up petrol": one fills not the car but the tank. The pump is pam — you know this word from "petrol station". In a live sentence: “เติม น้ำ มัน ที่ ปั๊ม ก่อน ไป” — Fill up the car at the station before the trip. Written with the characters เ, ต, ิ, ม, น, ้, ำ, ม, น. A word from the everyday Thai course, level A1.
In short
| Written in Thai | เติม น้ำ มัน |
| Read in Latin letters | тёэм нам ман |
| Translation | to fill up (with fuel) |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | A1 |
Why it looks that way
Literally "top up petrol": one fills not the car but the tank. The pump is pam — you know this word from "petrol station"
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.
- เติม น้ำ มัน ที่ ปั๊ม ก่อน ไปтёэм нам ман ти пам кон пайFill up the car at the station before the trip
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 fill up (with fuel)” in Thai?
«เติม น้ำ มัน», read “тёэм нам ман”. In a live sentence: “เติม น้ำ มัน ที่ ปั๊ม ก่อน ไป” — Fill up the car at the station before the trip. Phrase, level A1; written with the characters เ, ต, ิ, ม, น, ้, ำ, ม, น.
How is “เติม น้ำ มัน” written in Latin letters?
тёэм нам ман. 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 "top up petrol": one fills not the car but the tank. The pump is pam — you know this word from "petrol station". A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.