Greetings in Thai
Thai people don't normally speak to people who they haven't been introduced to.
ÊÇÑÊ´Õ sawasdee
is only one way of saying hello. Quite often this is abbreviated to ËÇÑ´´Õ
'waddee.
[»Ù] ÊÇÑÊ´Õ¤èÐ
[ÍéÍÁ] ËÇÑ´´Õ¤èÐ
[Poo] sawasdee ka
[Aom] 'waddee ka
[Poo] Hello
[Aom] Hi!
Obviously, this is more informal. An alternative informal greeting is
à»ç¹ÍÂèÒ§äúéÒ§
bhen yang rai bang
but pronounced
* Did you think we would transliterate the mahanagat
in yang as a u ?
Many books transliterate to a short u, which we think is much more confusing than a short a.
à»ç¹Âѧ䧺éÒ§
bhen yang ngai bang *
or sometimes abbreviated to
à»ç¹ä§ºéÒ§
bhen ngai bang
or even as short as
à»ç¹ä§
bhen ngai
An even more informal version is
à»ç¹ä§ÁÑè§
bhen ngai mang
They all mean How is it going ?
Vocabulary |
ËÇÑ´´Õ | Hello |
à»ç¹ä§ºéÒ§ | How's it going ? |