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VIDEO: Thai Expression “Have Fun!”

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When you would like to wish Thai people ‘Have a good trip’, ‘enjoy your meal’, ‘enjoy your movie’ etc. you can easily use the following pattern:

VERB + ให้ hâi (for) + ADJECTIVE

* ให้ hâi (for) + ADJECTIVE = ADVERB

For example;

  • เที่ยวให้สนุก

tîao hâi sà-nùk (Have a good trip or enjoy your holiday)

เที่ยว [tîao]  means ‘to go on a holiday’ or ‘to go out for fun’

สนุก [sà-nùk] means ‘fun’

  • กินให้อร่อย

gin hâi à-ròi (Enjoy your meal)

กิน [gin] means ‘to eat’

อร่อย [à-ròi] means ‘delicious’

  • ดูหนังให้สนุก

duu năng hâi sà-nùk (Enjoy your movie)

ดู [duu] means ‘to watch’

หนัง [năng] means ‘movies’


I hope you found this lesson useful 🙂

Mod


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  6. My God, Mod, I’ve been looking for this site. Thank you so much! I memorized all the thai characters now and a few of vowels. I’ll work on some phrases next week. Please keep up the good work! Chok dee na kha..

  7. Khun Mod,
    my biggest compliment to you!
    Of all methods of learning Thai language I know this is the most fun and charming.
    Since I came across your blog I found my motivation to bring my abandoned knowledge of Thai language back to life again 🙂 I do like 2 or 3 of your lessons per day and a little bit of vocabulary training. At least I won’t forget everything that way, but for further improvement Iould have to practice more.

  11. The actual english equivalent of the Thai word pattern might be “Hope you like it”, rather than “hope you enjoy it”. In English the use of “enjoy” is more of an invitation of someone who has prepared or is serving it. English colloquial would be “like” rather than “enjoy”.

  19. I enjoy your videos. You are a clever teacher and a hard worker, too. Thanks for everything you did for all of your fans.

  21. As I explained in my video, there’s no Thai equivalent for ‘have a nice day’. We say something that is specific to one event:)

  25. I just found your site, and am glad I found your blog now in the beginning of it, so I won’t miss a thing it looks aerdaly like it’s going to be one of my favorite daily reads.

  28. “hai” has many functions. One of them is used to form “to do something for somebody”
    e.g. I bought you a coffee >> I bought a coffee for you = pom sue gaa-fae hai kun

  29. In the word of อร่อย [à-ròi] , the letter of อ is pronounced as [à]. What is the rule for pronunciation?