How much? (gee baht)

How much? (gee baht)

If you are shopping you wil need to ask "how much?" You don't really need to learn "..is this?" or "...is that?" as you can use sign language at the same time.

How much is this? =(ra ka thao rai)

That is a little expensive. =(paeng bai)

Can you make it cheaper?= (lot noi dai mai)

The Thai word "noi" means little and is used to make a request sound more polite. All "dai mai" questions are answered with "dai" for "yes" and "mai dai" for "no".

How about ... baht? = (... baht dai mai)

Numbers : Zero = soon , One = nueng , Two = song , Three = sam

Four = see , Five = har , Six = hok , Seven = jed , Eight = bad

Nine = gao , Ten = sib , Eleven = sib et , Twelve = sib song , Thirteen = sib sam

Once you can count 1-11 the rest will be very easy. In fact easier than English. Thai students are very good in learning Math. This is partly due to the way the numbers are named. Take thirty as an example. To us it is just a name but to a Thai student it is three blocks of ten. In Thai thirty is "sam sib" or literally "three tens". Thirty six is "three tens six".

From twelve to nineteen you just repeat the same formula:
14 = 10 + 4 (sib see)
15 = 10 + 5 (sib ha)

Twentyyee sib
Twenty One yee sib et
Twenty Two = yee sib song , Twenty Three = yee sib sam

Again, from twenty two to twenty nine you repeat the same formula

24 = 20 + 4 (yee sib see)
25 = 20 + 5 (yee sib ha)

Thirty = sam sib , Forty = see sib

By now you should be able to count all the way to one hundred.

60 = 6 x 10 (hok sib)
70 = 7 x 10 (jed sib)

One Hundred = nueng roi , Two Hundred = song roi

One Thousand = nueng pun , Two Thousand = song pun

Ten Thousand = nueng muen

Can you help me? (chuay dai mai)

Can I see that? (khor doo dai mai)

I am just looking. (khor doo thao nun)

will come back later. (ja ma mai)

Do you have something bigger? =(mee yai gwar mai)
The thai word "yai" means "big". Adding "gwar" after it makes it "bigger".

Do you have something smaller?= (mee lek gwar mai)
The thai word "lek" means "small". Adding "gwar" after it makes it "smaller".

Do you have something cheaper= (mee took gwar mai)
The thai word "took" means "cheap". Adding "gwar" after it makes it "cheaper".

Do you have another colour? = (mee see auen mai)

Colour = see

The Thai word for colour is "see". When naming a colour you should say "see" first.
For example: Red is "see daeng" or "colour red".
If you want to say "light pink" you would say "see chompoo aorn"
Light=aorn , Dark =gae



White= kow , Orange = som , Red = daeng , Pink = chom poo , Beige= keem

Yellow= lueang , Light = Bluefa , Blue = nam ngern , Violet = muang , Green = kiaw

Brown = nam dtan , Grey = tow , Black= dam , Silver = ngern , Gold = tong


What colour do you like? (khoon chawp see a-rai?)

I like white. (pom chawp see kow)

The Thai word for "I" is "pom" and is only used by men.
Women should say "chan" among friends or "di-chan"

Where do I pay? (jai ngoen tee nai)