Your Most Used Phrases

[FruitPudding]

So, we have a thread on the most common words in Thai language, but what about your most used phrases?

On a daily basis what phrases do you find yourself saying?

Please given the roman script phonetic for those who can't read Thai as well as the English translation.

Cheers

[rak sa_ngop]

แพงหูฉี่ phaeng hu chi

Means 'very expensive'. Nothing to do with your ear urinating as far as I know. It would be interesting to know how this expression came about.

Edited March 21, 2016 by rak sa_ngop

[ivan96822]

I like how the Rs and Ls are seemingly interchangeable, such as "kalaoke" for karaoke...

[Phantom4]

"mai ao Krap" every day walking by Tuk-Tuks in Bangkok.

[gk10002000]

It's a coin flip between

Mai Ow!

or

Suai Maaak Maaak.

[1FinickyOne]

Arai ga dai -

sabai dee mai

mee arai kin [for my wife]

[cooked]

Mai phut Pasaa Thai (I don't speak Thai) which doesn't mean I don't understand Thai and so is very useful sometimes.

[steven100]

mai pen rai ...........

lets boom boom ....

Edited March 22, 2016 by steven100

[tubby johnson]

mee faen rue yung?

[siamcrut]

alai wa

[Sattphalat]

Kitt tang doai kap.......

[Sattphalat]

Fang may roo Roang

[Lannig]

พูด ช้าๆ หน่อย ครับ (phut cha cha noy krub) -> please speak a bit slower

[taotoo]

Marlboro light box kup.

Chang classic box kup.

[colinneil]

My favorite 1 is Mai mee tang - i have no money.

[lemonjelly]

Gin kao ler mai?

[tgeezer]

เออจริงหรือ eu jing reu I can't do phonetics eu is just a grunt to get the words out, nothing like the eu in reu(rising tone) .

I think this is 'oh really' which I use often, since I am often find that I am being told things.

[Lannig]

Gin kao ler mai?

So idiomatic indeed. Took me a while to understand why this was coming up in nearly every phone call!

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[lemonjelly]

Gin kao ler mai?

So idiomatic indeed. Took me a while to understand why this was coming up in nearly every phone call!

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Chatting with southern girls?

Lol

[Lannig]

Gin kao ler mai?

So idiomatic indeed. Took me a while to understand why this was coming up in nearly every phone call!

-- Tapatalk

Chatting with southern girls?

Lol

Er.... no, not at all. Different people, mosly from central and north.

This seems to be part of the usual conversation in a phone call, asked almost as systematically asked as "sabai dee mai?" A Thai tradition obviously, although it's generally asked to me as "Gin kao reu yang?" (have you eaten yet?)

Another quite used one: จะโอนเงินวันนี้ (ja own ngeun wan nee). Do I really need to translate? Try telling me you haven't used this one...

[geriatrickid]

uhhh uhhh uhh

mai mai

da da

krap

Pi-kap

kapoom

[lemonjelly]

Gin kao ler mai?

So idiomatic indeed. Took me a while to understand why this was coming up in nearly every phone call!

-- Tapatalk

Chatting with southern girls?

Lol

Er.... no, not at all. Different people, mosly from central and north.

This seems to be part of the usual conversation in a phone call, asked almost as systematically asked as "sabai dee mai?" A Thai tradition obviously, although it's generally asked to me as "Gin kao reu yang?" (have you eaten yet?)

Another quite used one: จะโอนเงินวันนี้ (ja own ngeun wan nee). Do I really need to translate? Try telling me you haven't used this one...

Lol, unfortunately yes, but she prefers cash in hand