พอดี How To Use What Is The Meaning?

[everydaysthesame]

I often hear people start sentences with what i think is 'พอดี '

can anyone explain its meaning and how to use it?

i hear it so often I think it is maybe a useful phrase.

cheers!

[Redhawk]

It means,

just enough, just right or good enough.

[everydaysthesame]

It means,

just enough, just right or good enough.

Hi,

Thanks for your reply. I know what it literally means, but is there some other use for it when it starts a sentence?

Sorry I am not explaining very well.

Maybe I'll come back when I have a proper example.

Cheers!

[Spacer]

Kind of like something happening at the same time another event happens. Like, good thing (พอดี) you called just as I was walking out.

[TheChiefJustice]

Here are my (not literal) English translations of พอดี when used at the start of a sentence:

1. Well, as a matter of fact...

2. Actually...

3. Funny you should mention...

Example,

Mr. A: ไม่รู้เป็นอะไรแต่ช่วงนี้ผมรู้สึกไม่ค่อยสบาย

I'm not sure what's wrong but I've been feeling like sh*t lately.

Mr. B: พอดีผมก็ไม่สบายเหมือนกัน ลางานเป็นวัดทั้งอาทิตย์เลย

Well, as a matter of fact I've also been feeling like a dog's breakfast. Was off work with the flu all week.

[everydaysthesame]

Kind of like something happening at the same time another event happens. Like, good thing (พอดี) you called just as I was walking out.

Here are my (not literal) English translations of พอดี when used at the start of a sentence:

1. Well, as a matter of fact...

2. Actually...

3. Funny you should mention...

Example,

Mr. A: ไม่รู้เป็นอะไรแต่ช่วงนี้ผมรู้สึกไม่ค่อยสบาย

I'm not sure what's wrong but I've been feeling like sh*t lately.

Mr. B: พอดีผมก็ไม่สบายเหมือนกัน ลางานเป็นวัดทั้งอาทิตย์เลย

Well, as a matter of fact I've also been feeling like a dog's breakfast. Was off work with the flu all week.

thats it!!!! thanks for the answers. like the translations TheChiefJustice lol

[katana]

It seems sometimes to be used in the sense of 'just about to do something'

eg from Google

พอดีจะไปเที่ยวกระบี่ ที่ไหนน่าเที่ยวบ้างครับ? - I'm just off to Krabi. Any good places to visit?

พอดีจะเปิดร้านนะครับ · อยากรู้วิธีการตั้งราคาสินค้า - I'm just about to open a shop. I need to know how to price the goods.

พอดีจะซื้อมือถือดูทีวีได้...ใครก็ได้ช่วยแนะนำทีนะค่ะ - I'm about to buy a mobile phone with a tv function. Anyone got any recommendations?

[sangfroid]

พอดี can also mean "just in time" or in the case of clothes (pair of jeans, shirts etc) to "fit well"

[MarkTSpalding]

Fit = พอดี ..... phaaw dee

พอดี .... phaaw dee = just enough; good enough; just right; just sufficient,

กระชับ ..... gra chap = to fit closely

คู่ควร ....... khuu khuaan = [is] fit; suitable; proper; appropriate

ทำให้พอดี ....... tham hai phaaw dee = to fit

แนบเนื้อ ....... naaep neuua = to fit closely to the body

ปฏิกิริยารุนแรงทางอารมณ์ ...... bpa dti gi ri yaa roon raaeng thaang aa rohm = phrase, formal a fit

อาการเป็นลม ........ aa gaan bpen lohm = a fit, seizure, spell, or attack (the medical condition)

Good luck on the word "FIT"

[katana]

At a guess, I think PAW DEE JA พอดีจะ means you're just about to do something. Without the JA , means you've just done something

eg from Google

อยากถามคุณหน่อยครับว่าไปเอารูปสาวสวยคนนี้มาจากไหนครับ พอดีผมว่าหน้าเค้าเหมือนรุ่นน้องที่ผมรู้จักคนหนึ่งอ่ะครับ - Where did you get that photo from? I was just thinking she looks like a young girl I know.

พอดี ผม ไป ซื้อ หนังสือ มา 2 เล่ม - I just bought 2 books.

ไข้หวัด 2009 อาการเป็นไงครับ พอดีว่าผมเป็นหวัดเริ่มตั้งแต่คืนก่อน ตื่นมาเจ็บคอมาก ๆๆ แต่ไม่มีอาการปวดหัวตัวร้อน - What are the symptoms of swine flu like? I just came down with a cold last night. Woke up with a very bad sore throat but no headache or fever.

[Briggsy]

"As it happens"

I find it is sometimes used to preface and/or soften some crap excuse as if the happening were just some fluke and nothing to do with bad planning.

พอดีช่างไม่ได้อยู่ ติดต่อพรุ่งนี้ก็ได้คะ

[lboonl]

พอดี

sometimes we put this word in the beginning of the sentence because

- we feel that the event we will talk to is happening or has just come about.

- or we are going to do the event

however, you can skip this word because it's on the lips of all Thais

usually, you will encounter เผอิญ in the beginning.

เผอิญ ~ พอดี are analogous.

Boon