ยอม รับ ผิด
“ยอม รับ ผิด” (йом рап пхит) — to confess; to admit fault in Thai. Verb, level B1. Literally "agree to accept the fault": the accept-agreement is yours, and so is the fault. To confess is to agree to accept your own wrongness. In a live sentence: “สุด ท้าย เขา ยอม รับ ผิด” — In the end he confessed. Written with the characters ย, อ, ม, ร, บ, ผ, ิ, ด. A word from the everyday Thai course, level B1.
In short
| Written in Thai | ยอม รับ ผิด |
| Read in Latin letters | йом рап пхит |
| Translation | to confess; to admit fault |
| Part of speech | verb |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
Literally "agree to accept the fault": the accept-agreement is yours, and so is the fault. To confess is to agree to accept your own wrongness
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.
- สุด ท้าย เขา ยอม รับ ผิดсут таай кхао йом рап пхитIn the end he confessed
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 confess; to admit fault” in Thai?
«ยอม รับ ผิด», read “йом рап пхит”. In a live sentence: “สุด ท้าย เขา ยอม รับ ผิด” — In the end he confessed. Verb, level B1; written with the characters ย, อ, ม, ร, บ, ผ, ิ, ด.
How is “ยอม รับ ผิด” written in Latin letters?
йом рап пхит. 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 "agree to accept the fault": the accept-agreement is yours, and so is the fault. To confess is to agree to accept your own wrongness. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.