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03-04-10, 09:58 PM #11
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Re: 1000 most common thai words used
BTW...
"à¨çº (jep)
undefinedà¨ÃÔ (jay-rin)
# prosper ; grow ; develop ; flourish ; wax ; thrive ; progress
# recite a prayer ; chant ; pray"
is obvious a mistake in the translation.
for some reason that dic. didn't find à¨çº and suggested à¨ÃÔ (is what I guess went wrong)
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05-04-10, 01:50 AM #12
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Re: 1000 most common thai words used
Thanks David...not sure why I didn't find those in thai2english...I also used sealang and my se-ed paper dictionary. That solves most of the mystery, though.
I'll be doing it in chunks. I just started with the gor gais - 64/80.
Still, the word list was quite helpful and gives me my jumping off point to cram in more vocab.
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05-04-10, 05:45 AM #13
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Re: 1000 most common thai words used
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·Ù´
»ÃÑ´ÂØºÑ¹
໹ (a misspelling for à»ç¹ ??)
I forgot to ask her about »ÃÑ´ÂØºÑ¹ and ໹
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05-04-10, 06:46 AM #14
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Re: 1000 most common thai words used
I think ÀÙÁ , ªÐ¹Ç¹ , ªÐ¹Ð , ໹ and the like are indeed misspellings and that's why you won't find them in the dictionaries *. They could be included as "Common misspellings" but to list them as "Alternative spellings", suggesting that you could use either that spelling or the proper one, seems misleading to me. It's only these wrong spellings included in the list - there's no correct spellings of ÀÙÁÔ , ª¹Ð , à»ç¹ etc... - which there surely would be if the spelling was intentional. Also, any word you can't find in multiple dictionaries definitely can't be called one of the 1000 most common!
I think if you discount the wrong spellings it makes your score all the more impressive Pailin
* OK, royin actually says ÀÙÁ is a Khmer word meaning ºéÒ¹ , but that's just a coincidence - you're never going to hear anyone use it that way.
for some reason that dic. didn't find à¨çº and suggested à¨ÃÔ (is what I guess went wrong)Just checking Lexitron now, it seems they've added it in too.
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05-04-10, 02:58 PM #15
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Re: 1000 most common thai words used
That list is so daunting!! I think at my level of ability (or lack of) its more useful to prepare my own list to learn by heart, using the words I am most likely to use in normal converstation. But you guys are streets ahead.
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06-04-10, 02:47 AM #16
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Re: 1000 most common thai words used
You can also take it in doses... Choose one letter and work on those, then move to another letter. (the for example only have two words listed)
The only reason I was able to go through it all is that I had an extra day off last week and just sat down and did it.
Furthermore....I haven't yet learned those extra 250 or so words. I've only looked them up and written down the definition. It will be many months and flashcards later that I might have remembered some of them.
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09-04-10, 10:04 PM #18
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Re: 1000 most common thai words used
Good job!!
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Re: 1000 most common thai words used
Hello David,
I haven't gone through the whole list. I have only read the preceding post.
- I'm afriad that the following are misspellings (and could not be considered as alternative spellings): ¡Ð´Ò¹ ªÐ¹Ç¹ and ªÐ¹Ð. We don't have these words in the Thai language. The correct spellings are as follows:
¡Ãдҹ = board
ª¹Ç¹ = slate for writing ( (My grand dad used it in school but I have never seen it since I was born!), fuse , the cause of something that leads to (disaster or something bad)
ª¹Ð = win, defeat
- The following are ancient Thai words that were used in the range of King Ramkhamhang the Great (some 500-7000 years ago). We don't use these words in writing and speaking these days (and they are considered misspellings if they are used by someone).
à¾Õ¹ = distort, alter, misrepresent
໹ = equivalent to v. to be in English (is, am, are)
ÀÙÁ = house
- My assumption concerning the spellings of à¾Õ¹ ໹ and ÀÙÁ is that they are typos. We have some words in Thai (whose spellings are quite similar to those 3 ancient words) that are used by Thais in this present time. They are:
à¾Õé¹ = distort, alter, misrepresent
à¾ÕÂà = make effort in doing something
à»ç¹ = v. to be (Some teens may use ໹ as an Internet language because they are too lazy to type ø. However, it's not aceptable by people at large).
ÀÙÁÔ = land, smart or intelligent (Although ÀÙÁÔ is used in modern Thai, it rarely appears as a single word. Usually, it is used to form a compound noun with another word such as ÀÙÁÔÈÒʵÃì (geography) ÀÙÁÔÀÒ¤ (regional) ÀÒ¤ÀÙÁÔ (pride)
There are a lot of online Thai-Thai, Thai-English and English-Thai dictionaries. Unfortunately, they have not been carefully edited, particularly for their spellings. The best way is to check Thai words with the Royal Institute dictionaries published by the Royal Institute of Thailand.
I hope this would be useful in a way.
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12-04-10, 01:13 AM #20
Re: 1000 most common thai words used
hihi, i don't know this word "ÀÙÁÔ"? when it is pronounced "poo mee" and "poom"
if it's ÀÙÁÔÈÒʵÃì : poo-mí-sàat
but if it's ÀÙÁÔ㨠poom jai, ÀÒ¤ÀÙÁÔ pâak poom, it's has only 2 sound
thanks so much
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