ตู้ ล็อก เกอร์
“ตู้ ล็อก เกอร์” (туу лок кё) — locker in Thai. Noun, level A2. The same cabinet as in the wardrobe and the fridge, plus English locker: a cabinet that locks with a key. In gyms and schools they stand in rows. In a live sentence: “ตู้ ล็อก เกอร์ อยู่ ข้าง ห้อง แต่ง ตัว” — The lockers are next to the changing room. Written with the characters ต, ู, ้, ล, อ, ก, เ, ก, อ, ร. A word from the everyday Thai course, level A2.
In short
| Written in Thai | ตู้ ล็อก เกอร์ |
| Read in Latin letters | туу лок кё |
| Translation | locker |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A2 |
Why it looks that way
The same cabinet as in the wardrobe and the fridge, plus English locker: a cabinet that locks with a key. In gyms and schools they stand in rows
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.
- ตู้ ล็อก เกอร์ อยู่ ข้าง ห้อง แต่ง ตัวтуу лок кё ю кхаанг хонг тэнг туаThe lockers are next to the changing room
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 “locker” in Thai?
«ตู้ ล็อก เกอร์», read “туу лок кё”. In a live sentence: “ตู้ ล็อก เกอร์ อยู่ ข้าง ห้อง แต่ง ตัว” — The lockers are next to the changing room. Noun, level A2; written with the characters ต, ู, ้, ล, อ, ก, เ, ก, อ, ร.
How is “ตู้ ล็อก เกอร์” written in Latin letters?
туу лок кё. 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?
The same cabinet as in the wardrobe and the fridge, plus English locker: a cabinet that locks with a key. In gyms and schools they stand in rows. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.