anothertorres Posted September 25, 2009 Share Posted September 25, 2009 Kid teung = to think about. it translates perfectly. we just happen to say "i miss you" and they say "i think about you". kid teung ter jang leree! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurnell Posted September 25, 2009 Share Posted September 25, 2009 Foreign guest แขกต่างชาติ khàek tàang châad or แขกต่างประเทศ khàek tàang prathêed Pity they don't use it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rionoir Posted September 25, 2009 Share Posted September 25, 2009 Kid teung = to think about. it translates perfectly. we just happen to say "i miss you" and they say "i think about you".kid teung ter jang leree! You contradicted yourself in your own post *giggle* I miss you vs. I am thinking about you... that was my point... it's not the really the same, and if you talk to Thai people long enough you'll see that they don't really understand what "I miss you" is. More like, "I'm sad you are not here right now" instead of just "I am thinking about you." You could think about some for a lot of reasons. Anyway, I know it's used similarly for all intents and purposes... but I've always thought it was interesting. Like when someone who never met me (chatting online or whatever) tells me they are kid theung me. hehe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anothertorres Posted September 25, 2009 Share Posted September 25, 2009 ahh right, i get what you're saying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickBradford Posted September 26, 2009 Share Posted September 26, 2009 ^^^ No word for "stress", or was that a joke? Thais I know use the word เครียด ('khriat') very freely for that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alvin80 Posted September 26, 2009 Share Posted September 26, 2009 ^^^No word for "stress", or was that a joke? Thais I know use the word เครียด ('khriat') very freely for that. yes i heard เครียด for stress pretty often too.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fred2007 Posted September 26, 2009 Share Posted September 26, 2009 I am not an expert in Thai language but is there a word for drink or drank? Every time I finish my coffee they ask me "did you eat your coffee' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kennkate Posted September 26, 2009 Share Posted September 26, 2009 Please Is there a Thai word for Please ? My wife tells me there is no word in Thai for Please Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PoorSucker Posted September 26, 2009 Share Posted September 26, 2009 ATTENTION PLEASEI'm a thai and we dont have this word "horny" muahahahahha but only 1 that i can think of ..its slang tho "gnian" (some of thais dont understand) argh any idea? try to ask ur sweetheart about this k? ah or this but too long "chan mee kwam tong karn tang pet" <deleted>? pet haha yes! its mean SEX. I use "Baa Gaam" ( บ้ากาม ). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mca Posted September 26, 2009 Author Share Posted September 26, 2009 Isn't ร่าน (raan) used for lust or desire in Thai in a sexual way? Couldn't this also be used for horny? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mangkorn Posted September 26, 2009 Share Posted September 26, 2009 I am not an expert in Thai language but is there a word for drink or drank?Every time I finish my coffee they ask me "did you eat your coffee' No, they are not saying "eat your coffee." กิน means "to eat/drink." Liquids are consumed down the throat and into the stomach, just the same as solids; many languages use the same word for both (including espanol). But if you must, the formal term ดื่ม means to drink liquids. Not being an expert, your pronunciation of สระ อื might not be good enough to make yourself understood. Anyway, Thais rarely say ดื่ม. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mangkorn Posted September 26, 2009 Share Posted September 26, 2009 Please Is there a Thai word for Please ? My wife tells me there is no word in Thai for Please ขอ is the common word to request something, ("May I have...?") and the "please" is implied. ช่วย also carries the meaning of "please," when that is what one wishes to say. Equivalents of the English way of prefacing a request with "please" are กรุณา and โปรด - but both are formal usages. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sangfroid Posted September 27, 2009 Share Posted September 27, 2009 There's not a good translation for the word "Logic" at least not in the way we farang use the word. ตรรก is the closest but IMO it doesn't quite fit. Any thoughts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sangfroid Posted September 27, 2009 Share Posted September 27, 2009 Please Is there a Thai word for Please ? My wife tells me there is no word in Thai for Please ช่วย กรุณา or ขอร้อง are used but I agree there is not a word with exactly the same connotation as our "Please" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eurasianthai Posted September 27, 2009 Share Posted September 27, 2009 (edited) ATTENTION PLEASEI'm a thai and we dont have this word "horny" Right, but you have two words for masturbating, one for the men, one for the women, I guess this compensates for not having the word horny Edited September 27, 2009 by Farangrakthai Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KKK Posted September 27, 2009 Share Posted September 27, 2009 All English can be translated into Thai....but it may take more than one word to do so. I belive that the originator was more interested in single word translations so: thirsty = Hiw Naam does not count as it is made from 2 words "hungry+water" There is no single word for thirsty that I'm aware of...... Other one english to two thai words, with no one thai word, that spring to mind are: bring = aw maa = take+come mine = kong chan = thing+me wardrobe = tuu sua paa [re]fridge[rator] = tuu yen zebra = maa lai = horse+striped and I'm sure there are thousands more.....conjoining words to make another word is fairly common in the Thai language as it is in some other languages, german for instance (bra[sier] = busten halter = bust holder) and it is this that to me makes the language so easy to learn. If you don't know the word make it up joining words you do know...you'll be suprised at how often it turns out right. BTW gnian (horny) applies to men....for women I believe it to be "kun hee" also slang...I'll leave somebody else to translate that.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mca Posted September 27, 2009 Author Share Posted September 27, 2009 It's great to see so many replies on this thread but as KKK said what I was really looking for were examples where literally no Thai word exists and the best that a dictionary can come up with is a description. On another of KKKs points joining 2 words together to hazard a guess as to what the Thai word would be has worked for me on several occasions in the past much to my delight and amazement. Another thing I've noticed is I've become quite adept at guessing that the Thais don't have a word for something so they use the English. I mean above and beyond the usual "strawberry" "tennis" stuff. Unfortunately no examples spring to mind at the moment as my second coffee of the morning hasn't kicked in yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robroy Posted September 27, 2009 Share Posted September 27, 2009 Do they have one for 'logic'? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sangfroid Posted September 27, 2009 Share Posted September 27, 2009 Do they have one for 'logic'? See post # 43 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
featography Posted September 27, 2009 Share Posted September 27, 2009 It's great to see so many replies on this thread but as KKK said what I was really looking for were examples where literally no Thai word exists and the best that a dictionary can come up with is a description.On another of KKKs points joining 2 words together to hazard a guess as to what the Thai word would be has worked for me on several occasions in the past much to my delight and amazement. Another thing I've noticed is I've become quite adept at guessing that the Thais don't have a word for something so they use the English. I mean above and beyond the usual "strawberry" "tennis" stuff. Unfortunately no examples spring to mind at the moment as my second coffee of the morning hasn't kicked in yet. I have always called this Thaiglish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
featography Posted September 27, 2009 Share Posted September 27, 2009 There doesn't seem to be a Thai word for chocolate.Choppy Only an english loan word - but apparently now accepted as Thai language ช็อกโกแลต. Use of loan words is pretty common for things that came to Thailand as English items, the word for pen - ปากกา bparkgar comes from the English - 'Parker Pen' according to my teacher. Even if he is wrong, it makes it easy to remember. Cheers, Daewoo Another thing I've noticed over the past few years is a quite large influx of English words into Thai conversation where there's actually a completely valid Thai word that could be used. "Meeting" as in "business meeting" comes to mind. Pla Choom is what locals here use for meeting. When sitting around an outside table with the locals that are socializing, if, when a passerby asks me what I am doing, and I respond "Pla choom ta ling" (bull@#$ meeting) all understand and laugh hysterically Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mca Posted September 27, 2009 Author Share Posted September 27, 2009 My point is that quite often Thais will use the English word (as in meeting) instead of the Thai word ประชุม. Do you ever come across that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tawai Posted September 27, 2009 Share Posted September 27, 2009 Do they have one for 'logic'? See post # 43 I would use "giauw gap hetpon" says "related with the reason" But as post 43 says "in the terms westerners would use it" methinks there is no word and no place for logic in TH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
appleman Posted September 27, 2009 Share Posted September 27, 2009 There's no word for 'stress.' Stress = ความเครียด thirsty = กระหายน้ำ not thirsty = ไม่กระหายน้ำ There is also no English word for not being horny. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PoorSucker Posted September 27, 2009 Share Posted September 27, 2009 There's no word for 'stress.' Stress = ความเครียด thirsty = กระหายน้ำ not thirsty = ไม่กระหายน้ำ There is also no English word for not being horny. Dead? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PoorSucker Posted September 27, 2009 Share Posted September 27, 2009 How about skiing? I have tried "play with snow", but it might not come out right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pjclark1 Posted September 27, 2009 Share Posted September 27, 2009 (edited) เอาไหม ao mái* - do you want [it/some]ไม่เอา mâi ao - no I was under the impression that the strict definition of "เอา" was "To take with intent" "เอาไหม" is a question that means literally "Take me?" and will often be used by girls of easy virtue in discos (an alternative to the English "looking for business". Never use "เอา" when talking about a person, only things. So "ไม่เอา" means "not take" which may be useful in many situations as a substitute for "no" but not in some instances. But what do I know? Edited September 27, 2009 by pjclark1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mangkorn Posted September 27, 2009 Share Posted September 27, 2009 It's great to see so many replies on this thread but as KKK said what I was really looking for were examples where literally no Thai word exists and the best that a dictionary can come up with is a description. The fallacy posited here is the presumption that a compound word is not a "word." Pardon me for "eavesdropping" as I use a "keyboard" and "ashtray," but that's a "forehead" scratcher. Perhaps you should "backtrack" and take "another" look at English "yourself" - suffice to read a "newspaper" or listen to a "broadcast" - to "update" that "viewpoint." Football. Watermelon. Earthquake. Airplane. Railroad. Homemade. Backbone. Daybreak. Nightfall. Somebody. Anybody. Nobody. "Grandma" took a "cheesecake" and "underwear" to her "deadbeat" "playboy" "grandson" in the "jailhouse" "before" his appearance at the "courthouse" to face "manslaughter" charges for shooting a "bellhop" with a "handgun".... Compound words are the "lifeblood" of vibrant languages. Thai-language compound words are no less words than English ones are. Time long overdue to rethink that notion. Godspeed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mangkorn Posted September 27, 2009 Share Posted September 27, 2009 There's no word for 'stress.'A like a few Thai words that don't translate to English. Numjai and Kengjai. Naam Jai is "water heart". translates well enough to "good hearted" or even better "water from the heart". In the term น้ำใจ, น้ำ doesn't mean "water" - it connotes the very essence of what is being addressed: "goodwill, generosity." น้ำมือ means "craftsmanship," not "water from the hands;" น้ำเสียง means "attitude," or "tone of voice;" and the perennial favourite สมน้ำหน้า means you get what you deserve, not "water in your face..." In such cases, the relationship is allegorical, in the sense that liquids are essential to life; a literal translation to "water" falls far short. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkfish Posted September 27, 2009 Share Posted September 27, 2009 I believe there is no difference in Thai between Rat and Mouse both are called gnoo so for me something is missing I like mice but hate RATS!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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