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Dictionary
Information:
• Word or phrase entries: 1,999
• Audio Clips (some are common to more than one entry):
1,878
• The first lesson to learn is that politeness
is a very important cultural element of spoken Thai.
You will hear Kittiya speak the
khà word at the end of most of the
phrases. Khà
is the word that females use to convey politeness and respect.
To listen to the male version of this word, which is
khráp, just
look up the word polite.
Some newcomers may feel that the use of the khà
word is overdone - it is not. You must accustom yourself
to the frequency that these words are used and train yourself
to say the appropriate polite word (khráp
or khà) when
you speak Thai.
• Look up an English word and then try
breaking down a Thai phrase that is returned.
Do this by copying and pasting individual Thai words into
the search box and then click look up. This will give
you a feel for sentence construction and show where words
are used in different phrases.
• Some phrases have been broken down
to give their constituent parts meaning. These parts
might not normally be spoken on their own, and so the audio
that accompanies them may contain the whole phrase.
• Beware that some words with different
meanings and spellings in Thai sound the same and their
phonetic Thai transliterations look the same.
About Look
Up:
• If the look up term entered consists
of many words then the dictionary might not return accurate
results. Try short phrases or individual words, and
experiment with Broad and Narrow search modes. For
more information please refer to the
Help guide.
• If the word is not found then please check your spelling
and try again.
• If you are trying to look up a phonetic
Thai word then please consider the phonetic system that
we use. The dictionary will return results for a word search based upon
common phonetic representations.
Click here for more information on the English and non-English
characters used to represent Thai words and their tones.
• To enable the look up of words in Thai script
please click here.
• If you look up a word or phrase and
it does not exist in the dictionary then it will be added
to our list of vocabulary to review. Vocabulary that is
added to this online database will ultimately be added to
the databases used by our Learn
Thai Software.
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