Who doesn’t love Thai food? – especially Thai fast food or อาหารตามสั่ง /aa-haan-taam-sàng/ (cooked to order food) that you can find on any corner of the street.
First of all, you need to learn the main word ใจ /jay/ (pronounced /jai/) which means heart in the abstract term, while หัวใจ /hua-jay/ means a heart as an organ in English.
As everyone knows, “Yes” in Thai language is “ใช่” /chây/. However, many people misuse this word for anything that means “yes” in English, while in Thai language, there four cases with four ways to say “yes”.
ปาก /bpàak/ is more than just a mouth. Discover 10 phrases commonly used in daily life.
/khîi/ (ขี้) in Thai language means not only “poop” as a noun or “to take a dump” as an informal verb but also “body waste”.
There are so many foreigners who set up their lives in Thailand, learned Thai, and finally started to speak Thai and be able to engage themselves to the Thai community.
First of all, you have to learn the main prefix ‘น่า’ /nâa/ which has no direct meaning but it could mean something similar to “seem” in English.
Play is one of my most favorite English words as I love to play. However it can be use with different things, not only with sports and games in Thai language. Let’s learn with interesting examples.
Play in Thai is เล่น /lên/ (up-down tone)
For examples:
In English, you can use the word “play” with sports, music, and games, while we can use the word เล่น /lên/ or play in much more cases in Thai language.
เล่น /lên/ can be used with anything that gives you some fun and joy. Now I will show you some interesting examples with the word /lên/
เล่นการพนัน /lên kaan–pha-nan/
As gambling gives you some excitement and fun, Thai people use the word /lên/ with gambling
Ex. ฉันไม่ชอบเล่นการพนัน /chãn mây chôorb lên kaan-pa-nan/ = I don’t like to gamble.
เล่นโยคะ /lên yoo-khá/
Even though, we say “do yoga” in English, we use the word เล่น “lên” or “play” with Yoga as yoga is fun.
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เล่นยา /lên yaa/
Frankly, I don’t wanna touch this topic, but it is so interesting that we use the word /lên/ with drugs.
It is because drugs might give someone temporary joy.
Note:
เล่นยา /lên-yaa/ used only with the colloquial term, we use the word /sèeb/ as a proper way to say instead)
เล่นเฟสบุ๊ค /lên Facebook/
Seriously, we use the word เล่น (play) with social media and applications like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.
That is it for the word ‘เล่น’ or play and how to use this word in different situations in Thai language.
Hope you enjoy this topic, and let me know, what you like to PLAY? Keep learning Thai and see you soon!
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