Thai Phrases

Here are a few Thai phrases in Thai, English meaning and our phonetic version of how it should be spoken.

Males say krub, females say kaa after most phrases as either thank you or please.

sawadee krub/kaa - greeting, hello

sabaidee mai - how are you

sabaidee krub/kaa - I’m fine thanks

kop khun krub/kaa - thank you

aharn - food

lan aharn - restaurant

nam - water

nam prao - bottled water

bier - beer (so I’m told)

kin kao - eat a meal (rice)

tow rai krub/kaa - how much please

peng mak - very expensive

tuk mak - very cheap

1 - nung

2 - song

3 - sam

4 - see

5 - ha

555 - funny (ha ha ha, sorry we do that here as foreigners)

6 - hoch

7 - jet

8 - baird

9 - gow

10 - sip

20 - yeesip

30 - samsip

50 - hasip

100 - nung loi (should be nung roi but Thai slang prevails)

200 - song loi

500 - ha loi

1,000 - nung pan

2,000 - song pan

10,000 nung sen

Add Bhat to the end and you have your prices!