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    Re: How do u say it's okay?

    wow. thanks everyone for their views n opinions!!! one more qn, i always hear thai ppl saying "oh ho~~" "oiiiiiiiiiiii~~" .

    May i know what's that suppose to mean? is it like "oh my god?, shit! and etc?

    form of exclamation?

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    Re: How do u say it's okay?

    It can vary little depending on Context, but mostly

    "Oh Ho" is used like in English "Wow".

    You can hear "Oh Ho" a lot by Thai Commentators of a Football Game, when there was a really good Action by a Player etc.

    "Oiiiii" is an expression when you are surprised but maybe a little bit in a scared way - so I don't really know what you would say in English, maybe something like "Ah".
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    Re: How do u say it's okay?

    Quote Originally Posted by Coregunner View Post
    wow. thanks everyone for their views n opinions!!! one more qn, i always hear thai ppl saying "oh ho~~" "oiiiiiiiiiiii~~" .

    May i know what's that suppose to mean? is it like "oh my god?, shit! and etc?

    form of exclamation?
    This site has a pretty good "selection" of Thai interjections and exclamations;


    Here's a couple of the one's you asked about;
    โอ้โฮ
    โอ้โห
    โอ๊ย
    โอย

    Even if you can't read a lick of Thai, you can see from looking at the spellings that the characters which make up the words aren't the same. This makes you pronounce the examples I gave with different tones and they have different meanings too.

    Because you can't change the way you pronounce a Thai word (or you're sayin' a different word entirely) interjections, exclamations, and ending particles are used to convey the emotive value of what's being said. They are a super important part of the Thai language.

    Good Luck

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