Adventures of Huckleberry Finn — Page 8

Vocabulary

เรา

rao — First person plural pronoun meaning 'we' or 'us'

หยุด

yut — To stop or halt movement or action

รถโดยสาร

rot doi san — A passenger vehicle such as a bus

และ

lae — Conjunction meaning 'and', connecting words or clauses

รถม้า

rot ma — A horse-drawn carriage or coach

บน

bon — Preposition meaning 'on' or 'above'

ถนน

tha-non — A road or street for vehicles and people

สวม

suam — To wear or put on clothing or accessories

หน้ากาก

na kak — A mask worn over the face

แล้ว

laeo — Already; indicates a completed action or 'then'

ฆ่า

kha — To kill or cause the death of someone

คน

khon — A person or people; human being

เอา

ao — To take or get something; want

นาฬิกา

na-li-ka — A clock or watch used to tell time

กับ

kap — With; together with; and (connecting nouns)

เงิน

ngoen — Money; also means silver as a material

ของ

khong — Of; belonging to; possessive particle

พวกเขา

phuak khao — Third person plural pronoun meaning 'they' or 'them'

ไป

pai — To go; move away from current location

ต้อง

tong — Must; have to; expressing necessity or obligation

ทุกครั้ง

thuk khrang — Every time; each and every occasion

เลย

loei — At all; so; therefore; emphasizing particle

หรือ

rue — Or; question particle asking for confirmation

แน่นอน

nae-non — Certainly; of course; definitely without doubt

มัน

man — It; third person pronoun for things or animals

ดี

di — Good; nice; well; of positive quality

ที่สุด

thi sut — The most; superlative marker in Thai

บางคน

bang khon — Some people; certain individuals

คิด

khit — To think; to consider or contemplate something

ต่าง

tang — Different; various; to differ from something else

ออกไป

ok pai — To go out; to leave a place

แต่

tae — But; however; conjunction showing contrast

โดยมาก

doi mak — Mostly; for the most part; generally speaking

ถือว่า

thue wa — To consider as; to regard something as something

การฆ่า

kan kha — The act of killing; murder as a noun

ยกเว้น

yok wen — Except; excluding; with the exception of

ที่

thi — At; which; that; relative pronoun or place marker

พา

pha — To take someone along; to lead or bring

เข้ามา

khao ma — To come in; to enter a place

ใน

nai — In; inside; within a space or container

ถ้ำ

tham — A cave or cavern in rock or hillside

นี่

ni — This; here; used to point out nearby thing

เก็บ

kep — To collect; keep; store; pick up something

ไว้

wai — To keep; to put aside for future use

จนกว่า

jon kwa — Until; up to the point when something happens

จะ

ja — Will; future tense marker or intention marker

ได้รับ

dai rap — To receive; to obtain something given by someone

ค่าไถ่

kha thai — Ransom money paid to free a captive

นั่น

nan — That; pointing to something farther away

คือ

khue — Is; to be; defines or equates two things

อะไร

a-rai — What; asking about an unknown thing

ฉัน

chan — I; me; first person pronoun used by females

ไม่รู้

mai ru — Don't know; to be unaware of something

นั่นแหละ

nan lae — That's it; exactly that; emphatic confirmation

สิ่ง

sing — Thing; object; an abstract or physical entity

ทำ

tham — To do; to make; to perform an action

เคยเห็น

khoei hen — To have seen before; past experience of seeing

หนังสือ

nang-sue — A book; written reading material

ดังนั้น

dang nan — Therefore; so; thus; as a result of that

ว่า

wa — That; to say; complementizer introducing a clause

ได้

dai — Can; able to; indicates possibility or past action

อย่างไร

yang-rai — How; in what way; asking about manner

ถ้า

tha — If; conditional conjunction for hypothetical situations

ช่างมัน

chang man — Never mind; forget it; let it be

เถอะ

thoe — Particle urging someone to just go ahead

อยู่ดี

yu di — Still; anyway; fine as it is; regardless

ไม่ได้

mai dai — Cannot; did not; negates ability or past action

บอก

bok — To tell; to inform someone of something

อยู่

yu — To be at; to stay; to live somewhere

แก

kae — You; informal second person pronoun for familiars

อยาก

yak — To want; to desire something strongly

ไปจาก

pai jak — To leave from; to go away from a place

ทำให้

tham hai — To cause; to make something happen to someone

ทุกอย่าง

thuk yang — Everything; all things without exception

ยุ่งเหยิง

yung yoeng — Messy; chaotic; complicated and disordered

งั้น

ngan — Then; in that case; informal for 'therefore'

พูด

phut — To speak; to talk; to say something

ง่าย

ngai — Easy; simple; not difficult to do

นะ

na — Softening particle seeking agreement or softening tone

บรรดา

ban-da — All those; the group of; collectively referring to

พวกนั้น

phuak nan — Those people; that group over there

ถูก

thuk — Correct; cheap; or passive voice marker

เรียก

riak — To call; to name; to summon someone

รู้

ru — To know; to be aware of information

ตอนนี้

ton ni — Right now; at this moment; currently

คิดว่า

khit wa — To think that; to believe or suppose something

ก็

ko — Also; then; well; connective filler particle

เหมือนกัน

muean kan — Same; likewise; also; me too

บางที

bang thi — Sometimes; perhaps; possibly; occasionally

หมายความว่า

mai khwam wa — To mean that; to signify a particular meaning

ตาย

tai — To die; to be dead; death

ได้เรื่อง

dai rueang — Well done; effectively accomplished; satisfactory result

ตอบ

top — To answer; to reply to a question

ได้แล้ว

dai laeo — Done already; got it; finished successfully

ทำไม

tham-mai — Why; for what reason or purpose

ไม่

mai — No; not; negation particle in Thai

ตั้งนาน

tang nan — For a very long time; such a long while

ล่ะ

la — Emphasis particle asking 'then?' or 'so?'

จนตาย

jon tai — Until death; to the point of dying

เพื่อ

phuea — In order to; for the purpose of doing

รับ

rap — To receive; to accept; to take something offered

คง

khong — Probably; likely; expressing reasonable assumption

น่ารำคาญ

na ram khan — Annoying; irritating; bothersome behavior or situation

มาก

mak — Very; much; a lot; high degree

กิน

kin — To eat; to consume food or drink

พยายาม

pha-ya-yam — To try; to make an effort to do something

หนี

ni — To flee; to escape; to run away from

ตลอดเวลา

ta-lot we-la — All the time; constantly; without stopping

อะไร

a-rai — What; asking about an unknown thing