Valentine’s day is coming! Many people are looking forward to celebrating this loving/romantic time with their loved ones.
When your friends are planning to play football, go on a vacation, do yoga or even watch a movie at a cinema, it would be so nice of you to wish them ‘Have Fun!’, but how to say that in Thai? Check out this post.
If you translate a sentence by google translation, sometimes the translated sentences do not sound so natural. It is because of the nature of Thai language: word choices and construction is totally different.
For examples,
เจอกัน /jeer-gan/ = meet you!
While in English, you would say ‘See you!’
ยินดีที่ได้รู้จัก /yin-dii thii-day rúu-jàk/ = I am glad to know you.
While in English, you would say ‘It’s nice to meet you’
Therefore, translating word by word is not a good idea to speak Thai.
Well, there is no word or phrase in Thai for ‘Have fun!’. However, we do have something similar to that.
We would say ‘Have fun ….. (doing something)’ instead.
The sentence structure would be:
Vocabulary keys:
ให้ hâi = for
สนุก sà-nùk = fun
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This quick Thai video lesson will show you how to put this in practice.
Let’s practice your Thai listening skills and see how much you got it!
Hope you enjoy learning Thai
rian paa-sãa-Thai hâi sa-nuùk na
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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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