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"Yes" is ใช่่ , romanized as chai [1] "No" is ไม่ , ไม่ใช่ , or เปล่า (mai, mai chai, bplao) There are many other words that also mean yes/no but those are t
by geomark 11y ago
"Yes" is ใช่่ , romanized as chai [1]
"No" is ไม่ , ไม่ใช่ , or เปล่า (mai, mai chai, bplao)
There are many other words that also mean yes/no but those are the direct translations that are used extensively in everyday conversation.
[1] http://www.thai2english.com/dictionary/yes.html http://www.thai2english.com/dictionary/yes.html
[2] http://www.thai2english.com/dictionary/no.html http://www.thai2english.com/dictionary/no.html
- peteretep 11y agoYou clearly speak to different Thai people than me day to day. I have only heard them used to mark pieces of information as being correct or incorrect.
- geomark 11y agohttps://youtu.be/sxoda3pLdN0?t=1m24s https://youtu.be/sxoda3pLdN0?t=1m24s This is basic standard Thai used by all central Thais.
- peteretep 11y agoAll I can say is that day to day, you must be speaking to different Thais than I am. Chai/mai-chai are only used - again, I must stress, by the 10-50 Thais I speak to in Thai each day - to mean "correct" or "incorrect". Where in Thailand do you live, and what level of Thai fluency do you have that you're running in to frequent counter-examples?
- geomark 11y agoI've lived in Thailand for 14 years, in Bangkok and now Pak Chong, and speak to Thais everyday. I studied Thai at AUA and then with a private tutor. But that's just my anecdotal experience. I gave two references to standard Thai, a dictionary and a video teaching basic Thai by native Thai speakers. Both show the Thai words for "yes" and "no". If you have an reference of any kind that indicates there are no words for "yes" and "no" in the Thai language please link to it.