A Tale of Two Cities — Page 4

Vocabulary

เธอ

thoe — She, her, or you (informal pronoun)

ถูก

thuuk — Correct; cheap; to be acted upon

พัดพา

phat pha — To sweep away, carry along by force

ไป

pai — To go; away (directional particle)

ด้วย

duai — Also, too; with; by means of

ความ

khwaam — Nominalizing prefix expressing abstract concepts

ปีติ

piiti — Joy, delight, rapturous happiness

ยินดี

yin dii — Pleased, glad, willing to do something

จาก

jaak — From; to leave, depart from somewhere

ข่าว

khaao — News, information, report about events

ที่

thii — At, which, that; place; relative pronoun

แจ้ง

jaeng — To inform, notify, report something to someone

แก่

kae — To; old; for (used with indirect objects)

เกี่ยวกับ

kiao kap — About, concerning, related to a topic

สามี

saa-mii — Husband, a woman's male spouse

และ

lae — And; connecting words, phrases, or clauses

จับ

jap — To grab, catch, hold, or arrest

มือ

muue — Hand, the body part at arm's end

ส่ง

song — To send, deliver, or pass something along

จดหมาย

jot maai — Letter, written correspondence sent to someone

ของ

khoong — Of; belonging to; possessive particle

เขา

khao — He, she, him, her, they (third person)

มา

maa — To come; toward the speaker (directional)

ให้

hai — To give; for; causing someone to do something

โดย

dooi — By, via, by means of (indicating agent)

มิได้

mi dai — Did not; formal negative of past action

คิด

khit — To think, consider, or calculate something

เลย

loei — At all; so; therefore; ever (intensifier/particle)

ว่า

waa — That (conjunction); to say; as (comparator)

นั้น

nan — That, those (demonstrative pronoun/adjective)

ได้

dai — Can; to get; past tense marker (auxiliary)

ทำ

tham — To do, make, perform an action

อะไร

a-rai — What; anything; something (question word)

อยู่

yuu — To be at; to stay; continuous aspect marker

ใกล้

klai — Near, close, not far from something

ใน

nai — In, inside, within a place or time

คืน

khuuen — Night; to return something to someone

ผ่าน

phaan — To pass, go through, pass by something

อาจ

aat — Might, may, possibly (modal auxiliary verb)

กระทำ

kra-tham — To commit, perform, carry out an act

สิ่ง

sing — Thing, object, matter, something abstract or concrete

ใด

dai — Which, any, whatever (question/relative pronoun)

ต่อ

to — Against; to; per; to continue; toward

หาก

haak — If, in case, supposing that (conditional)

โชคชะตา

chook cha-taa — Fate, destiny, fortune beyond one's control

เข้า

khao — To enter, go in; inward (directional particle)

แทรกแซง

saek saeng — To intervene, interfere in a situation

ที่รัก

thii rak — Dear, beloved; term of endearment for someone

ยิ่ง

ying — Even more; increasingly; the more (intensifier)

จง

jong — Imperative particle; should, must (command form)

มี

mii — To have, possess; there is/are

กล้า

klaa — Brave, courageous; to dare to do something

เถิด

thoet — Particle urging or encouraging an action politely

ฉัน

chan — I, me (first person pronoun, informal)

สบายดี

sa-baai dii — Fine, well, in good health and comfort

พ่อ

pho — Father, dad (informal term for one's father)

อิทธิพล

it-thi-phon — Influence, power affecting others' thoughts or actions

รอบ

rop — Around, surrounding; a round, a cycle

ตัว

tua — Body; self; classifier for animals and objects

ไม่

mai — No, not (general negation particle)

ตอบ

top — To answer, reply, respond to something

นี้

nii — This, these (near demonstrative pronoun/adjective)

จูบ

juup — To kiss; a kiss given to someone

ลูก

luuk — Child, offspring; also classifier for round objects

เรา

rao — We, us; I, me (informal first person)

แทน

thaen — Instead of; to replace, substitute for something

นั่น

nan — That (demonstrative, slightly distant reference)

คือ

khuue — Is, are; namely; that is to say

ทั้งหมด

thang mot — All, everything, the whole amount or total

ข้อความ

kho khwaam — Message, text, written statement or content

เขียน

khian — To write, compose text on a surface

แต่

tae — But, however; only; since (conjunction/preposition)

สำหรับ

sam-rap — For, intended for a particular person or purpose

ผู้

phuu — Person who; one who (nominalizing prefix for agent)

ได้รับ

dai rap — To receive, obtain, get something from someone

มัน

man — It; he/she (informal); starchy (for food)

ความหมาย

khwaam maai — Meaning, significance, interpretation of something

มาก

maak — Much, many, a lot, very (intensifier)

เสีย

siia — To lose; broken; wasted; particle of completion

จน

jon — Until; so much that; poor (adjective)

หัน

han — To turn, face, rotate toward a direction

หา

haa — To look for, search, seek something or someone

ภรรยา

phan-ra-yaa — Wife, a man's female spouse (formal term)

ข้างหนึ่ง

khaang nueng — One side; to one side, off to the side

กำลัง

kam-lang — Currently doing; strength, power, force

ถัก

thak — To knit, weave, or braid fibers together

เป็น

pen — To be; to be able to; as (linking verb)

การกระทำ

kaan kra-tham — Action, act, deed performed by someone

เปี่ยม

piiam — Full of, brimming, overflowing with something

ความรัก

khwaam rak — Love, affection, deep emotional attachment to someone

ซาบซึ้งใจ

saap sueng jai — Deeply moved, touched, profoundly grateful or appreciative

สตรี

sa-trii — Woman, female person (formal/literary term)

การ

kaan — Nominalizing prefix for actions or processes

ตอบสนอง

top sa-noong — To respond, react, answer to a stimulus

ใดๆ

dai dai — Any, whatsoever, of any kind at all

ห้อย

hoi — To hang, dangle, droop downward loosely

ลง

long — Down, downward; to descend; directional particle

เย็นชา

yen chaa — Cold, indifferent, emotionally distant and unresponsive

หนัก

nak — Heavy; severe; hard (describing weight or intensity)

อึ้ง

ueng — Stunned, speechless, dumbfounded by shock or surprise

แล้ว

laeo — Already; then; after that (completion particle)

ก็

ko — Also; then; well (discourse/connective particle)

กลับ

klap — To return; back; on the contrary (reversal)

ดังเดิม

dang doem — As before, as originally was, back to normal

บางสิ่ง

baang sing — Something, some thing (indefinite reference to object)

การสัมผัส

kaan sam-phat — Touch, contact, the act of touching something

ทำให้

tham hai — To cause, make, render something a certain way

สะดุด

sa-dut — To stumble, trip, catch on an obstacle

หยุด

yut — To stop, halt, cease doing something

ชะงัก

cha-ngak — To pause abruptly, be interrupted suddenly mid-action

ขณะ

kha-na — While, during, at the moment of something

จะ

ja — Will, going to (future tense marker)

เก็บ

kep — To keep, collect, store, or pick up

ไว้

wai — To keep, set aside; maintaining a state

อก

ok — Chest, breast, the front of the torso

เสื้อ

suea — Shirt, top, garment worn on the upper body

ยัง

yang — Still, yet; also; still continuing (aspect marker)

คง

khong — Probably; still; likely to remain the same

คอ

kho — Neck, the body part connecting head to torso

จ้อง

jong — To stare, gaze fixedly at something or someone

มอง

moong — To look at, gaze, observe something visually

หวาดกลัว

waat kluua — Frightened, terrified, filled with fear and dread

รับ

rap — To receive, accept, take something from someone

สายตา

saai taa — Eyesight; gaze, the direction one is looking

ไร้อารมณ์

rai aa-rom — Emotionless, expressionless, showing no feeling at all

คิ้ว

khiu — Eyebrow, the arch of hair above the eye

หน้าผาก

naa phaak — Forehead, the area of the face above eyebrows

ยก

yok — To lift, raise, elevate something upward

ขึ้น

khueen — Up, upward; to rise; directional/aspect particle

กล่าว

klaao — To say, state, mention (formal/literary speech verb)

เพื่อ

phuea — In order to, for the purpose of doing something

อธิบาย

a-thi-baai — To explain, describe, clarify something to someone

จลาจล

ja-laa-jon — Riot, civil unrest, public disorder and violence

บน

bon — On, on top of, above a surface

ท้องถนน

thong tha-non — Street, road; the public street level area

บ่อย

boi — Often, frequently, many times regularly

ครั้ง

khrang — Time, occasion, instance of something happening

แม้

mae — Even though, although, even if (concessive)

เหตุการณ์

het-kaan — Event, incident, occurrence, situation that took place

เหล่านั้น

lao nan — Those, those ones (plural demonstrative reference)

น่า

naa — Worthy of; likely to; makes adjective from verb

สร้าง

saang — To build, create, construct, establish something new

เดือดร้อน

dueat ron — Troubled, distressed, causing hardship or serious problems

ปรารถนา

praat-tha-naa — To wish, desire, long for something earnestly

พบเห็น

phop hen — To encounter, come across, witness something firsthand

อำนาจ

am-naat — Power, authority, control over people or situations

คุ้มครอง

khum khroong — To protect, guard, safeguard from harm or danger

ยาม

yaam — Guard, watchman; at the time of, during

เช่นนั้น

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

รู้จัก

ruu jak — To know, be acquainted with a person or thing

พวกเขา

phuak khao — They, them (third person plural pronoun)

จดจำ

jot jam — To remember, memorize, keep something in memory

เชื่อ

chuea — To believe, trust, have faith in something