Learn how to write the numbers 4-6, อุย and เอ
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| สวัสดีค่ะ, ดิฉันปรารถนาค่ะ! Welcome to Thaipod101.com’s ตัวอักษรไทย Made Easy! |
| The fastest, easiest, and most fun way to learn the Thai alphabet: ตัวอักษรไทย! |
| In the last lesson you learned the numbers ๑, ๒, and ๓. Do you remember how to write them all? |
| In this lesson, you’re going to learn how to write the next 3 Thai numerals. |
| Are you ready to start? Then let's go! |
| Here is the number "4" or สี่ (sìi) in Thai. |
| To write it, we start with a counter-clockwise head, then make a little hook pointing to the bottom right. From there, the line curves over to the left and above the rest of the number. |
| And this is the number "5", or ห้า (hâa) in Thai. |
| It looks almost the same as the number 4. The only difference is the line has a loop added at the top. |
| Then here is the number "6", or หก (hòk) in Thai. |
| We write หก using a small counter-clockwise head. Then the line continues to make the shape of a backwards letter C. And finally there is a little tail that sticks out to the upper left, which tails off at the last part of the letter. |
| Are you ready to practice writing? |
| Let's try all the numbers up to six starting from the 3 we learned in the previous lesson. Here we go: |
| ๑, ๒, ๓, ๔, ๕, ๖ |
| Now see if you can read this number: |
| The digits are 3, 6, and 5. |
| So it's 365, or สามร้อยหกสิบห้า (sǎam-ráawy hòk-sìp-hâa) in Thai. |
| Do you know how to read this word? |
| You might expect this combination of letters to make the sound เออิ (ee-i). But this is a special pattern that you have to remember. The vowel in this word is actually not สระ เอ but สระ เออ which you learned in lesson 13. Do you remember how to write words with สระ เออ? |
| With no final consonant, สระ เออ was written with สระ เอ on the left and อ on the right of a letter. And with a final consonant, it was written with สระ เอ on the left and สระ อิ above the letter. |
| So you might expect we would just add ย to the end of this and write เอย (ooei) with |
| สระ เอ, สระ อิ , and ย. But for some reason, the สระ อิ does not get written when the final consonant is ย. |
| A word that uses this pattern is เนย (nooei), which means "butter". As you can see the initial consonant is น, and we have the vowel sound represented with combination of สระ เอ on the left and ย on the right. |
| Now it's time to learn the last tone rule. |
| Are you excited? |
| This rule is about using the tone mark ไม้โท (mái-thoo) with low class consonants. |
| And the rule is: |
| Low class consonants with ไม้โท make a high tone. |
| One important word using this is น้ำ (nám), which means "water". น้ำ has the initial low class consonant น. The vowel is สระ อำ , and we write the tone mark mái-thoo above the consonant to give it a high tone. น้ำ (nám) |
| Another word is ร้านอาหาร (ráan-aa-hǎan), which means "restaurant". ร้านอาหาร is actually a compound word. The first word is ร้าน (ráan), which means "shop", and the second word is อาหาร (aa-hǎan), which means "food". |
| The first syllable has the initial low class consonant ร with -้ (mái-thoo) added above it to give it a high tone. The second syllable is a mid tone อา (aa), and the last syllable is a rising tone หาร (hǎan) that starts with the initial high class consonant ห. |
| To write the whole word ร้านอาหาร in order we use: ร, -้ (mái-thoo), สระ อา , น, อ, สระ อา, ห, สระ อา, ร. |
| ร้านอาหาร (ráan-aa-hǎan) |
| Now it's time for Pradthana's Points. |
| A good reason for learning to read Thai is being able to read Thai menus. A lot of restaurants in Thailand will hand out Thai menus to Thai customers and English menus to Foreign customers. But often the Thai menu has far more choices listed on it than the English version. So knowing how to read Thai can increase your dining options. |
| Did you know that even Thai has a few irregularly spelled words? In the next ตัวอักษรไทย Made Easy Lesson you'll learn how to write the most common ones! See you there! สวัสดีค่ะ! |
Comments
HideLet's practice the Thai numbers here! How do you write 46?
Hi Q,
เ-ย ooei is not a vowel, it is a combination of เออ(vowel) plus common ย ยักษ์ final consonant that commonly appear with it. More information about Thai vowels https://www.thaipod101.com/lesson/ultimate-thai-pronunciation-guide-3-thai-vowels/?lp=55
and https://www.thaipod101.com/lesson/pronunciation-3-finetuning-your-thai-vowels/ Hope that helps. Please feel free to let me know if you have any questions. I will be glad to help.
สวัสดีค่ะ sà-wàt-dii-khâ
ปริษา Parisa
Team ThaiPod101.co
Hi,
I'm still confused. We have เ_ย = sa-ra ooei as a long vowel. How is the short version of this written, sa-ra oei? Or does that not exist because it's not an official vowel but a combo vowel like อำ / am?
If เ_ย is in the same classification as อำ, then what is their classification? Diphthongs?
H Q,
Thank you. เออะ oe short vowel เออ ooe long vowel is a vowel เ-ย is a vowel เออ plus common ย final consonant that come after this vowel, so their sound together is ...ooei เคย khooei เลย looei เฉย chǒoei เฉลย chá-lǒoei เปิดเผย bpòoet-pǒoei and etc...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
Team ThaiPod101.com
Hi,
Is เ_ย a vowel? Is it considered to be sa-ra- Ooei? Where is the short version of this vowel? How is that written?
สวัสดีค่ะ Alexis,
ขอบคุณค่ะ There is no explanation for this in our Thai language textbooks. For Thai children, we got to memorize them all. We do a lot of spelling tests in class. For foreigners, you will also need to memorize, if you know the tone rules would be really helpful. Also need to practice writing as often as you could, would help you memorize it better.
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ปริษา Parisa
Team ThaiPod101.com
Hello Parisa,
I would like to ask how do we know which letter to use based on the sound? Like for ร้านอาหาร, the n in haan us written using ร but not using น even though they both make the same ending sound?
Hi Miguel,
When it is a foreigner name ล at the end would sound like eo /ew ว that blend with vowels, so your name is มิเกล pronounce as mi-geeo.
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ปริษา Parisa
Team ThaiPod101.com
Hello Parisa,
so are there any words in Thai that have ล as a syllable ending, because we learned that ล makes a "n" stop.
Or is it just accidental that my name ha a "l" at the end.
Hi Miguel,
Thank you. Here is how we write your name Miguel มิเกล 👍 You may not pronounce the "g" but we did. I found this name online as well. A lot of famous footballers under this name. 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
Team ThaiPod101.com
Hello Parisa,
I was also wondering how my name would be spelt in Thai. Since my name is spanish you don't pronounce the "u" and the "g" makes a soft sound. What consonant would you use for it, maybe yaaw yak or yaaw ying?
I would love if you have any suggestions for me. Thank you!
Hello Sol,
Thank you. Yes, ร้อย is hundred/ หลักร้อย hundreds / คนเป็นร้อย hundreds of people. Hope that helps. Please let me know if you have any future questions. I will be glad to help.
Have a good day.
ปริษา Parisa
Team ThaiPod101.com
Hi,
Is ร้อย used to indicate hundreds/hundred?
Hi เดวิด,
That is right. 46 = ๔๖ / สี่สิบ หก but for the province we would say จังหวัด เลย / jang-wat Loei / Loei province. A little different from English speaking. Yes, this vowel is not easy. Speaker would relax and make stright sound เลย looei. 👍 Please let me know if you have any future questions. I will be glad to help.
Have a good day.
ปริษา Parisa
Team ThaiPod101.com
46 = ๔๖ / สี่สิบ หก
The first time I encountered the เ◌ย vowel was from a surprise visit to เลย จังหวัด / Loei jang-wat / Loei province.
I struggled to pronounce that place for a long time, as เ◌ย is one of the last verbs I learned, and is probably the most difficult to pronounce, because of that strange 'R' sound.
Hello Joseph,
Thank you. Here is the step of checking tones.. 1 What class is an initial consonant of a syllable? 2 See if there is a tone mark? if no tone mark then = 3 What a syllable ending consonants or vowels sound "life syllable will end with (m, n, ng, y(i), w and long vowel) while dead syllable will end with (p, t,k and short vowel)". For more detail check out
https://www.thaipod101.com/lesson-library/thai-alphabet-made-easy/
เ_ย is long vowel and also end with life syllable ending ย(y,i) so you would be able to figure out tone by above condition.
Hope that helps. Please let me know if you have any future questions. I will be glad to help.
Have a good day.
ปริษา Parisa
Team ThaiPod101.com
Hi Parisa,
Does เ_ย have tone rules as well? What if it is used for middle and high-class consonants, what would be the tone rules when using this vowel sound?
Thank you!
โจเซพฮ์
Hi Joseph,
Thank you. I think we may not have. These might help. http://www.thai-language.com/ref/typographical-styles?page=52
You can download to see 3 pictures on here for all consonants. ZIP (572kb): Aleksey Golubtsov: Read Thai Fonts (on this page link: https://www.expatden.com/thai/how-to-read-different-thai-fonts-and-handwriting/ ) You could search for more online. Hope that helps. Please let me know if you have any future questions. I will be glad to help.
Have a good day.
ปริษา Parisa
Team ThaiPod101.com
Hi,
Do you have a lesson that focuses on how letters are written and understood in different fonts? I find it hard to identify which letter is used in some texts since they don't have a head. Yes, I did come across on one lesson here on one of ปรารถนาค่ะ points but I still find it hard to identify which is which for other letter. Hope there will be a lesson for that the soonest.
Thank you!
โจเซพฮ์ (Joseph) did I do my name right? 😅
Hello Kong Yew Wan,
We're glad we help you figure out now. Please let me know if you have any future questions. I will be glad to help.
Have a good day.
ปริษา Parisa
Team ThaiPod101.com
So this is the reason why เลย is pronounced so strangely plus it is a very common word! I have been wondering about this for a long time.