A Tale of Two Cities — Page 12

Vocabulary

ใน

nai — In, inside, within a place or time

ระยะ

ra-ya — Distance, period, or interval of space/time

ไม่ถึง

mai thueng — Less than, not reaching a certain amount

ร้อย

roi — One hundred; also to string or thread

ไมล์

mail — Mile, unit of distance measurement

และ

lae — And, connecting words or clauses together

แสง

saeng — Light, brightness, or ray of light

ของ

khong — Of, belonging to; indicates possession

กอง

kong — Pile, heap, or a military unit

เพลิง

phloeng — Fire, flames, especially intense burning fire

อื่นๆ

ueen ueen — Others, various other things or people

มี

mee — To have, there is/are something

เจ้าหน้าที่

jao na thee — Official, officer, or government employee

คน

khon — Person, human being, individual

อื่น

ueen — Other, another, different one

ที่

thee — Place, location; relative pronoun 'that/which'

โชคร้าย

chok rai — Unlucky, unfortunate, having bad luck

กว่า

kwa — More than, comparative particle in Thai

คืน

khueen — Night; also to return something to someone

นั้น

nan — That, those; referring to something previously mentioned

ซึ่ง

sueng — Which, that; relative pronoun linking clauses

ดวงอาทิตย์

duang aa-thit — The sun, celestial body providing light

กำลัง

gam-lang — Currently doing; power or strength

ขึ้น

khueen — To rise, go up, increase in position

พบ

phop — To find, meet, or discover something

ว่า

wa — That; introduces reported speech or clause

พวกเขา

phuak khao — They, them; third person plural pronoun

ถูก

thuuk — Passive marker; correct; cheap in price

แขวนคอ

khwaen kho — To hang by the neck, execution by hanging

อยู่

yuu — To be located; to live; ongoing action marker

ตาม

taam — Along, according to, following something or someone

ถนน

tha-non — Road, street, public thoroughfare

เคย

khoei — Used to, once did something in the past

สงบสุข

sa-ngop suk — Peaceful, tranquil, calm and happy state

เกิด

gèrt — To be born; to occur or happen suddenly

เติบโต

toep to — To grow up, develop from young to adult

มา

maa — To come; directional particle toward speaker

นอกจากนี้

nok jaak nee — Besides this, furthermore, in addition to

ยัง

yang — Still, yet; also used for emphasis

ชาวบ้าน

chao baan — Villager, local resident of a rural area

ชาวเมือง

chao mueang — Townspeople, city dwellers, urban residents

ซ่อม

som — To repair, fix, or restore something broken

เพื่อน

phuan — Friend, companion, close acquaintance

ร่วมงาน

ruam ngaan — Colleague, coworker, person working together

เขา

khao — He, she, him, her; third person pronoun

ทหาร

tha-haan — Soldier, military personnel, armed forces member

ได้

dai — To get, can, able to; past tense marker

หัน

han — To turn, face a different direction

จัดการ

jat-gaan — To manage, handle, deal with a situation

ด้วย

duai — Also, too, with; used for inclusion

ความ

khwaam — Nominalizer prefix creating abstract nouns

สำเร็จ

sam-ret — To succeed, accomplish, complete a goal

ก็

ko — Also, then; discourse particle for continuity

ลำดับ

lam-dap — Order, sequence, rank in a series

ถัดไป

that pai — Next, following, the one coming after

แต่

tae — But, however, yet; contrasting conjunction

บรรดา

ban-daa — All of, the various, those collective group

ร่าง

raang — Body, figure, draft; outline of a document

ดุร้าย

du raai — Fierce, ferocious, savage, wildly aggressive

เหล่านั้น

lao nan — Those, referring to previously mentioned group

ยังคง

yang khong — Still, continue to remain in a state

มุ่งหน้า

mung naa — To head toward, move in a direction purposefully

ไป

pai — To go; directional particle away from speaker

ทาง

thaang — Way, path, direction, route to follow

ทิศตะวันออก

thit ta-wan ok — East, the eastern cardinal direction

ทิศตะวันตก

thit ta-wan tok — West, the western cardinal direction

ทิศเหนือ

thit nuea — North, the northern cardinal direction

ทิศใต้

thit tai — South, the southern cardinal direction

อย่าง

yaang — In a manner of; type or kind of

สม่ำเสมอ

sa-mam sa-moe — Consistent, regular, steady, uniform in manner

ไม่ว่า

mai wa — No matter, regardless of the condition

จะ

ja — Will, going to; future tense marker

เป็น

pen — To be, to exist as something

เช่นนั้น

chen nan — Like that, such as that, in that way

หรือ

rue — Or; question particle at sentence end

ไม่

mai — No, not; negation particle in Thai

ก็ตาม

ko taam — Regardless, even so, no matter what

ใคร

khrai — Who, whoever, anyone; interrogative pronoun

ไฟ

fai — Fire, flame; also electricity or light

ลุกไหม้

luk mai — To burn, catch fire, be in flames

ความสูง

khwaam suung — Height, altitude, how tall something is

ตะแลงแกง

ta-laeng kaeng — Gallows, scaffold used for execution by hanging

กลายเป็น

glaai pen — To become, turn into something different

น้ำ

naam — Water; liquid in general

ดับ

dap — To extinguish, go out, turn off light

มัน

man — It; third person for objects or animals

ไม่มี

mai mee — There is not, to not have something

ใด

dai — Any, which; indefinite or interrogative pronoun

สามารถ

saa-maat — Can, able to, capable of doing something

คำนวณ

kham-nuan — To calculate, compute, work out numbers

ใช้

chai — To use, employ, make use of something

วิธี

wi-thee — Method, way, procedure for doing something

คณิตศาสตร์

kha-nit-sa-sat — Mathematics, the study of numbers and calculations