ต้อง จ่าย ค่า เข้า
“ต้อง จ่าย ค่า เข้า” (тонг джай кхаа кхао) — paid entry; entry fee in Thai. Phrase, level A2. Literally "must pay for entering": the entry payment follows the same scheme as the water and light bills. Free is said "need not pay". In a live sentence: “เข้า วัด ต้อง จ่าย ค่า เข้า ไหม” — Is entry to the temple paid? Written with the characters ต, ้, อ, ง, จ, ่, า, ย, ค, ่, า, เ… A word from the everyday Thai course, level A2.
In short
| Written in Thai | ต้อง จ่าย ค่า เข้า |
| Read in Latin letters | тонг джай кхаа кхао |
| Translation | paid entry; entry fee |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | A2 |
Why it looks that way
Literally "must pay for entering": the entry payment follows the same scheme as the water and light bills. Free is said "need not pay"
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.
- เข้า วัด ต้อง จ่าย ค่า เข้า ไหมкхао ват тонг джай кхаа кхао майIs entry to the temple paid?
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 “paid entry; entry fee” in Thai?
«ต้อง จ่าย ค่า เข้า», read “тонг джай кхаа кхао”. In a live sentence: “เข้า วัด ต้อง จ่าย ค่า เข้า ไหม” — Is entry to the temple paid? Phrase, level A2; written with the characters ต, ้, อ, ง, จ, ่, า, ย, ค, ่, า, เ…
How is “ต้อง จ่าย ค่า เข้า” written in Latin letters?
тонг джай кхаа кхао. 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 "must pay for entering": the entry payment follows the same scheme as the water and light bills. Free is said "need not pay". A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.