There are two main situations where you can use the expression “verb + ได้แล้ว [dâi léaw],” as follows.
1. When you want to express that you or someone can now do something or that something is ready.
กินได้แล้ว [gin dâi léaw]
You can eat now. (the food is ready)
นั่งได้แล้ว [nâng dâi léaw]
You can sit now.…
Everyone knows “หนึ่ง” [nèung] means “one.” But many times, we use the term “เดียว” [diaw] instead, to emphasize the meaning. You can think of it as meaning “only one.” In the contexts where we usually emphasize the fact that there is only one of something, we use the word “เดียว” [diaw] instead of “หนึ่ง [nèung].”…
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Did you know Thai people say “ซอส” [sáwd] for “sauce” and “มะเขือเทศ” [mákěutêet] for “tomato” but when we say “ซอสมะเขือเทศ” [sáwd mákěutêet], 90% of the time, we actually refer to “ketchup” and not “tomato sauce”?…
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Storyline: Saifon asked her friend, Mawk, about what he did in his free time and found out that he was great at many things. Not only that, after learning that she doesn’t have many skills or abilities like he did, he did something that impressed her even more.…
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วิธีชนะอดีตได้ดีที่สุดคือการยอมรับมัน
[wítii chaná adìit dâai dii tîi sùd keu gaan yawm ráp man]
The best way to overcome your past is to accept it. …
ชีวิตจะง่ายขึ้น ถ้ารู้จัก. . .ปล่อยวาง
Life will be easier if you learn to “let go”.
[chiiwít jà ngâai kêun tâa rúujàk plòi waang]…
การที่เรารักใครแล้วต้องวิ่งตาม
[gaan tîi rao rák khrai léaw tâwng wîng taam]
When you love someone and you have to chase after them,
มันไม่ใช่ความรัก
[man mâi châi kwaam rák]
that’s not love.
แต่มันคือการออกกำลังกาย
[tàe man keu gaan àwk gamlang gaai]
That’s working out.…
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Did you know? In Thai, we call a New Year’s greeting card “ส.ค.ส.” [sǎw kaw sǎw], which is abbreviated from “ส่งความสุข” [sòng kwaam sùk], meaning “sending happiness.” Note that you can’t replace “ส.ค.ส.” [sǎw kaw sǎw] with “ส่งความสุข” [sòng kwaam sùk]. You send a “ส.ค.ส.” [sǎw kaw sǎw], not a “ส่งความสุข” [sòng kwaam sùk], to a friend.…
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Storyline: Yada found out that her brother cooked fried tofu. Despite his lack of cooking skills, she was excited to try his creation. But before she could do it, someone else entered the kitchen. What happened after that?
Examples of new vocabulary: Soft, salty, spicy, sugar, ketchup, dry, to deep fry, to drop, to dip, to spread, to smell, floor.…
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แซนต้าขี่ม้า [santáa kìi máa]
Santa riding a horse.
ขี่ [kìi] to ride
ขับ [kàp] to drive
ขี่ [kìi] is used with motorcycles, bicycles, horses, elephants etc.
ขับ [kàp] is used with cars, trucks, trains, planes, ships etc. …
Did you know that the word “ใหม่” [mài], apart from meaning “new” and “again,” it can also mean “just” as in “have just done something”? And when used in this sense, the word tends to be repeated as “ใหม่ๆ” [mài mài]. Take a look at the examples below;
Examples:
ตอนเพิ่งเข้ามาทำงานที่นี่ใหม่ๆ ฉันเครียดมาก
[tawn peûng kâo maa tam ngaan tîi nîi mài mài, chán krîad maak]
When I had just started working here, I was very stressed out.…
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.”…
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Storyline: Mom and Dad told Yee-waa about the car accident they had the previous night. The three discussed how Yee-waa would go to the university now that the car was under repair. Yee-waa objected to every idea her parents suggested. What did she want to do in the end?…
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