What will you look for when you arrive in Thailand?

Hello cwc,

Thank you. You can but the meaning will be a bit different. suue phon-la-maai thii-nai khrap, sound like we say Where did you buy fruits? while suue phon-la-maai daai thii-nai khrap Where can I buy fruits? Hope that helps. Please feel free to let me know if you have any questions. I will be glad to help.

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ปริษา Parisa

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"suue phon-la-maai daai thii-nai khrap"

Would it be incorrect or improper to leave out "daai" (to gain)?

It appears to be superfluous.

Khaawp khun na khrap.

Hello Eugenio,

Thank you very much for your comment. For your question, the different between "rúe-bplàao or not" and "rúe-yang already or not yet". "rúe-bplàao or not" is use when you are not sure if the person going to do something or not so you want to reconfirm. For example: wan-níi kun jà bpai tam-ngaan rúe-bplàao

"rúe-yang" is use to reconfirm if someone is doing what they suppose to do already or not yet, that mean you know that someone is going to do something and want to ask them if they do it already or not yet. Hope that help.

Cheer,

Parisa

Team ThaiPod101.com

Hi and so witch is the different between rue bplao and rue yang (not sure yang is write correct but I hear Thai often say it) Thanks for your help

I am sorry but those are not buffet restaurants. It's just a compound with several stalls, each of them selling its own food.

Thanks anyway.

Hello Nuno,

They a lot of Thai style buffet restaurant now a day. When you walk a long street you always can find what we call "ráan-mǔu-gà-tá" :https://www.google.co.th/search?q=%E0%B8%A3%E0%B9%89%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%99%E0%B8%AB%E0%B8%A1%E0%B8%B9%E0%B8%81%E0%B8%A3%E0%B8%B0%E0%B8%97%E0%B8%B0+%E0%B8%81%E0%B8%A3%E0%B8%B8%E0%B8%87%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%97%E0%B8%9E&biw=1253&bih=652&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&sqi=2&ved=0ahUKEwjqiZ3V2Z_PAhUURGMKHZiOC_0Q_AUIBygC

Have a great day.

Parisa

Team ThaiPod101.com

I'm looking for a place in Bangkok that serves Thai buffet (not international buffet), popular among Thais (no Hayatt, Marriot, Holiday Inn, etc., etc.).

Any thoughts?

Hello Patrick,

Thank you very much for your comment. We really appreciated that. For your question, "mái" and "rúe bplào" are very similar. We use them with the question that you don't know the answer and don't have any information to guess the answer. You really don't know or have no idea. For example:

- khun bpen kon Thai rúe bplào = Are you Thai?

- khun chaawp aa-haan Thai mái/ rúe bplào = Do you like Thai food?

* We don't use "mái" when the predicated is to be something. For example:

chan bpen maaw = I'm a doctor. We're not say "khun bpen maaw mái" but we say "khun bpen kruu rúe bplào"

khun bpen kon a-mee-ri-gan rúe bplào = Are you an American?

**We don't use "mái" with the negative particle in the sentence.

So we're not say: khun mâi chaawp aa-haan Thai mái = Do you like Thai food?

but we say: " khun mâi chaawp aa-haan Thai rǒoe

khun mâi châi kon a-mee-ri-gan rǒoe = Are you not an American?

khun mâi hiw rǒoe = You're not hungry, right?

Hope that helps. Please let us know you have future questions.

Have a good day.

Parisa

Team ThaiPod101.com

Hi sometimes we use maî at the end of the sentence to say - or not, and here we use "- ruue bplao" what mean exactly what is the difference?

Thanks :wink:

Hi Naoki,

You are very welcome. :smile:

Thank you again for your comment. We have changed the lesson note already.

Have a nice day!

Jing

Team ThaiPod101.com

Hi Jing,

Thank you so much for the explanation.

I do understand the difference for 'can' and 'gain' now.

But please note that the reason why I raise this question is that when I see the lesson note it says “dâai” means “to gain”.

Anyway thank you again for your kind help.

Best regards,

Naoki

Hi Naoki,

Thank you for your comment.

Actually, I would choose "can" instead of "gain", since the sentence is " (ซื้อผลไม้ได้ที่ไหน : where CAN I buy fruits)"

"can (dâai)" and "gain (dâai maa/dâai ráp)" have the different meaning, but the pronunciation in Thai is quite close. Let me explain a little bit more..

As we know "can" is "dâai (ได้)" = be able to (do something), but "to gain" in Thai can translate into "dâai maa (ได้มา)" or "dâai ráp (ได้รับ)" For example : "I gain an advantage" is "ฉันได้รับผลประโยชน์"

If you have any questions, please let me know.

Thank you,

Jing

Team ThaiPod101.com

Hi,

In the vocabulary list in this lesson, you explained to us that the meaning of dâai is 'can' in English.

However I think in this lesson it should be 'to gain' instead of 'can'. Am I right?

Can I also ask the pronunciation for 'to gain' and 'can'?

Are they completely same?

Thank you.

Best regards,

Naoki