หาย [hǎai] means “to disappear.”

When you lose something, for example, your glasses, you can say “แว่นหาย” [wâen hǎai], which literally means “the glasses have disappeared” or “the glasses are gone.” If you want to make yourself the subject of the sentence, you can also structure the sentence like this: “ฉันทำแว่นหาย” [chán tam wâen hǎai], meaning “I’ve lost my glasses.” The literal meaning of the sentence is “I made my glasses disappear.”

If you combine the word หาย [hǎai] with a verb or an adjective that describes feelings, states, symptoms or conditions, it means “to stop having that feeling /symptom or condition” or “to no longer be in that state,” as it implies that that feeling has disappeared.

Examples:
หายป่วย [hǎai pùai]: to recover from being sick or ill.
หายง่วง [hǎai ngûang] : to not feel tired/sleepy anymore.
หายอยาก [hǎai yàak]: to not want to do something anymore.
หายเครียด [hǎai krîad]: to not feel stressed out anymore.
หายปวดหัว [hǎai pùad hǔa]: to not have a headache anymore.
หายสงสัย [hǎai sǒng saǐ]: to not wonder anymore.
หายขี้เกียจ [hǎai kîigìad]: to not feel lazy anymore.
หายเสียใจ [hǎai sǐajai]: to not feel sad anymore.
หายโกรธ [hǎai gròde]: to not feel angry anymore.

A: ทำไมไม่ไปเล่นสกี
A: [tammai mâi pai lên skii]
A: How come you don’t go skiing?
B: ตอนอยากเล่นไม่มีใครไปด้วย ตอนนี้หายอยากแล้ว
B: [tawn yàak lên mâi mii khrai pai dûai. tawn níi hǎai yàak léaw]
B: When I wanted to go, nobody wanted to go with me. Now, I don’t feel like it anymore.

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