This is not intended to be a definative phrase dictionary, it is simply the phrases I've been taught at Thai lessons sorted into alphabetical order. The English transcriptions work for me but probably no one else!
Use the "Thai Flash Phrase" program to help you practice Thai phrases. First download Thai.exe and Thai1.tfp, save them in the same place then run theThai.exe program. You can edit the file Thai1.tfp using notepad and add your own Thai phrases.
Aeroplane | Kroong bin |
All week | Ta lorn atit |
Also | Duey |
Ant | Mod |
Arm | Kern |
Aswell | Duey |
Bad | Yair |
Bag (handbag) | Gra-pow |
Bag (paper or carrier) | Toong |
Band | Wong dontree |
Bathe | Ap nam |
Battery | Tarn |
Because | Pro(k)-wa |
Better | Dee kwaa |
Big body | Dooer yai |
Boat | Reu-a |
Bottle | Ko-at |
Book | Nang ser |
Breakfast | Ahaan chow |
Bread | Kanompang |
Bus number 23 | rot-mai sigh ey-sip sam |
But | T(d)ear (rhymes with there) |
Buy | Seuw (sir) |
Can I have another coke? | Kor coke eek? |
Can I have the bill please? | Kit nung (better than check bin cap) |
Can I see? | Kor doo noi dai mai? |
Can I try it? (food) | Long chim dai mai cap? |
Can you speak English | Pood passan ankrit dai mai. |
Cheaper | Tuk-kwaa |
Cheese | Neuy |
Chicken with cashew nuts | Gai pad med mamouang |
Clever | Cha-lar(t)... (chill out) |
Clothes | Seur (sewer) |
Cold | Now (feeling cold) Yen (things) |
Come here | maa nii |
Cooking | Tam ahaan |
Correct? | Tuk mai? |
Cough | Eye |
Could you repeat that please? | Pood eek tee dai mai cap? |
Crowded | Mee kun maa |
Cup | 2A |
Dangerous | Anderai |
Dentist | More fun |
Difficult | Ya(g) |
Diarrhoea | Tong sea-ar |
Dirty | Socopo |
Diving | Dam nam |
Do you have a big size? | Mee bur yai mai? |
Do you have a boy friend yet? | Khun mee fan reu-yang? |
Do you have a smaller one than this? | Mee mai lek-kwaa nii |
Do you sell batteries? | Mee tarn kai mai? |
Dog (bite) | Maa (ga) |
Ear | Who |
Easy | Ngai |
Eye | T(d)ar |
Face | Naa |
Fan | Pat lom |
Fat | Oo-an |
Finger | New-meur |
First | Gon (as in bye gon) |
First time I've come here | Maa kreng reck |
Foot | Tow |
Fridge | Two-yen |
Fried chicken with garlic and pepper. | Gai tod gratiem prik thai |
Frightened | Tok jai |
Frog | Gop |
Fruit | Polomai |
Glad | Dee jai (jai dee - kind heart) |
Green chicken curry | Geng keow wan gai |
Guess | Dow see |
Go to see the doctor | Bye ha more |
Go to the end of the street | Bye sud soi |
Go travelling | Bye teo |
Hair | Pom |
Hand | Meur |
Happy | Mee quam suk |
Have you been here before? | Keu-y maa ti nii mai? |
Haven't seen | Mai hen |
Hello | Sawatde kap |
Help me (emergency) | Choo-ay phom duey cap |
Help me please | Choo-ay phom noi cap |
Him, her or them | Kaou |
How long does it take? | Chai wella narn tow-rai? |
How long have you been in Thailand? | U prathead Thai narn mai? |
How long have you been working here? | Tam nan ti nii narn mai? |
How many children do you have? | Mee loo gee khun? |
How old are you? | Khun ayu tow rai kap |
How tall are you? | Khun soong tow rai? |
I bought it at Chatuchak | Phom seuw ti Chatuchak |
I can't hear | Mai dai yin |
I can't talk | Pood mai dai |
I don't believe | Phom mai chua (sure) |
I don't know yet | Phom yang mai ru |
I don't like to see the doctor | phom mai chop ha more |
I don't want bones (in my food) | Mai ow gra(t) doo |
I don't want to answer | Pom mai ya(k) torp |
I have a bad headache | Phom bo-at hua mark |
I have a cold | Phom ben wat |
I have back ache | Phom boat lang |
I hope you will be better tomorrow | Kit wa ja dee khun prung nii |
I like listening to Thai music | Pom chop fang plane Thai |
I like talking with you | Phom chop pood cap khun |
I like yellow the most | Phom chop see liyang maa ti suk |
I'm five foot eight inches tall | Phom soong ha foot bad new |
I'm not a tourist | Pom mai chai nak tong tio |
I'm not sure | Phom mai nere jai |
I'm sad | Phom see ar jai |
I'm single | Phom ben sword |
I'm walking to my friend's house | Phom dern baan pooan |
In front | Cang na |
I play tennis a lot | Phom len tennis maa |
I sit on a minibus to go to school in the morning. | Phom nang rot tow bye rong rien ton chow. |
I want a bigger one than this | Kor Yai-kwaa nii |
I want two Singha beers please | Kor beer sing song ko-at cap |
I went to see a movie | bye doo nang |
I will be here another two years | Phom ja u tii-niii eek song bee |
I will pay the bill | Pom jai nung |
I won't tell you! | Phom mai bore! |
Is it true | Jing mai? |
Is this the Novotel? | Novotel chai mai? |
It took two hours | Chai wella song cheumung |
I've lost my keys | Gun jerr phom high (long word) |
I've never eaten it | Phom mai keur gin |
Keys | Gun jerr |
Laugh | Hoo-a-ro(ck) |
Left side | Sai moer |
Leg | Car |
Liar or lie | Go-hok |
Lots of times (been here before) | Lie krang |
Lunch | Ahaan Te-an (or clang wan) |
Magazine | Nang ser magazine |
Mango | Mak muan |
Massage | Noo-ut |
Maybe | Aajaa |
Medicine | Yah |
Misunderstand | Cow jai pit |
Mixed fried vegetables | Pad pak roo-am |
Month | Dooaan |
Mop the floor | Too bahn |
Mosquito (bite) | Yoong (gat) |
Mouth | Bar |
Never (been here before) | Mai keu-y |
New | Mai |
Newspaper | Nang ser pim |
Noodles | Lad-na |
Nose | Jamoo |
Now (or nowerdays) | Deo nii |
OK | Tok long |
Old | Guerre (people) gow (things) |
Only | Tao-nun |
Or | Reu |
Packet | Ha! |
Paint the house | Tar see bahn |
Park (Lumpini) | Soo-un Lumpini |
Play guitar | Len(g) guitar |
Pomello | Som-o |
Present (gift) | Con quan |
Pretend | Lane lane |
Raft | Pair |
Rat | No |
Read | Ann |
Rest | Pakpon |
Restaurant (expensive) | Rang ahaan patacarn |
Return | Glap |
Ride elephant | Kee chang |
Right side | Kwar moer |
Say that again | Pood mai |
Scratch (verb) | Gaou |
Sea | Ta lay |
Sea Food | Ahaan talay |
See Mother and Father | Ha mere lek paw |
Serves you right | Som nom na |
Shadow | Ngow |
Shoes | Wrong tow |
Shopkeeper | Jo kong ran |
Short | (d)tear |
Singing | Rong plane |
Sleep at 11 wake at 6 | Non ha tum, Deern hok mong |
Small bottle of Sangthip | Sangthip nung bearn |
Smell (bad) | Men |
Smell (good) | Hom |
Snake | Ngoo |
So | Dang nan |
Sometimes | Ban krang |
Someone's dying | Khun d(t)ie |
Some people | Ban khun |
So So | Tamada |
Soya sauce | See you!!! |
Stomach | Tong |
Stomach ache | Boat Tong |
Stop on the left side | Jot sai moer |
Stop on the right side | Jot kwar moer |
Strange | Blair |
Strong or healthy | Keng reng |
Sweet mouth (flatterer) | Pakwan |
Swimming | Why nam |
Swimming pool | Sa! why nam |
Table for three please | To(k) samrap sam khun |
Take away | Ow clap barn |
Tell me | Bok pom |
That's all | Mud laou |
Thin | Pom |
Third floor | Chang sam |
This evening | Yen nii |
This evening I will eat egg noodle soup | Yen nii phom ja gin ba mee nam |
Tin | Ca-pong |
Try it (food) | Long chim |
Today is the 15th | Won ti sip ha |
Toe | New tow |
Tooth | Fun |
Two elephants | Chiang song dooa |
Two plants | Don my song ton |
Two times | Song krang |
Upset stomach | Tong see ar |
Waiter or waitress. | Nong (Baa for older woman) |
Wake up | Doan none |
Walk | Dern |
Watermellon | Teng more |
We | Row |
What are you doing? | Tam arai? |
What did you buy at Central? | Seuw arai ti Centran? |
What did you do before you worked here? | Tam arai gon maa tam nan tin nii? |
What does your husband do? | Sammy khun tamnan arai? |
What do you call this in Thai? | Pasan Thai riagwa arai (viagra) |
What do you think? | Khun kit wa yang rai? |
What do you like to eat? | Chop gin ahaan arai? |
What do you want to drink? | Ow-nam-arai? |
What ever you want to give | Laou ter ja hi |
What is the matter with you? | Ben arai kap? |
What else is the matter with you? | Ben arai eek kap? |
What is your name? | Khun choo arai kap |
What size? | Bur arai? |
What time? | Kee mong? |
Where do you come from? | Khun mah jahk nai kap? |
Where do you play tennis? | Khun len tennis tee nai? |
Which? | nai? |
Whiskey | Laou (flat bern) (round glom) (card fark laou) |
Who is the winner? | Cry channa? |
Who are you going with? | Bye cap cry? |
Why? | Tum-mai? |
Wife | Palai-ya |
Window | Nadang |
Wood (it isn't wood) | Mai (mai chai mai) |
Work (verb) | Tam-nan |
Work hard | Tam-nan dee |
Would you like to go for a meal with me? | Bye gin cow cap phom mai? |
Would you like to go for a drink (beer) with me? | Bye gin beer cap phom mai? |
Yes | Chai (or) verb (or) Cap pom |
Young | sao(f) noom(m) dek lek (child) |
New phrases added on 21/03/99