{"id":100,"date":"2010-09-14T10:22:42","date_gmt":"2010-09-14T10:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/thai\/?p=100"},"modified":"2014-08-27T13:50:59","modified_gmt":"2014-08-27T13:50:59","slug":"going-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/thai\/going-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Going Home"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not too long ago I finished my most recent 6-month vacation here and Thailand, returning home (\u0e01\u0e25\u0e31\u0e1a\u0e1a\u0e49\u0e32\u0e19<\/strong>) to my beloved US of A. It\u2019s not the first time I’ve spent such a long time here in the Land of Smiles, but I think this time I’ll miss it (\u0e04\u0e34\u0e14\u0e16\u0e36\u0e07<\/strong>) more than ever.<\/p>\n

So this post will be about vocabulary for taking a holiday.<\/p>\n

Now if you take off just a day or two, its called \u0e27\u0e31\u0e19\u0e2b\u0e22\u0e38\u0e14<\/strong>. \u0e27\u0e31\u0e19<\/strong> means day, and \u0e2b\u0e22\u0e38\u0e14<\/strong> means stop. It refers to taking a break off from work. Now if you take a long period off from work, its called \u0e1e\u0e31\u0e01\u0e07\u0e32\u0e19<\/strong>, where \u0e1e\u0e31\u0e01<\/strong> means ‘take a break’, and \u0e07\u0e32\u0e19<\/strong> of course means work. So when I took 6 months off from work, I was \u0e1e\u0e31\u0e01\u0e07\u0e32\u0e19\u0e2d\u0e22\u0e39\u0e48. Adding \u0e2d\u0e22\u0e39\u0e48<\/strong> at the end is almost like adding ‘ing’ to a verb, meaning in the state of doing it.<\/p>\n

If you were going to go traveling, you’d say \u0e44\u0e1b\u0e40\u0e17\u0e35\u0e48\u0e22\u0e27<\/strong>. Now in Thai, it doesn’t exactly mean the same as in English. If I was to ask a girl out for a date, perhaps go to a restaurant followed by a walk in a park, I would ask her something like \u0e44\u0e1b\u0e40\u0e17\u0e35\u0e48\u0e22\u0e27\u0e01\u0e31\u0e19\u0e21\u0e31\u0e49\u0e22<\/strong>? She’d of course inquire ‘\u0e40\u0e17\u0e35\u0e48\u0e22\u0e27\u0e44\u0e2b\u0e19<\/strong>?’ or ‘ \u0e44\u0e1b\u0e44\u0e2b\u0e19<\/strong>?’, and then it’d become clear if I meant out to lunch, or a week in Japan . . .<\/p>\n

To get home, I need to take several forms of transportation. Getting onto each requires various verbs to describe the action. For example, I will \u0e19\u0e31\u0e48\u0e07\u0e41\u0e17\u0e01\u0e0b\u0e35\u0e48<\/strong> (get in the Taxi) and \u0e02\u0e37\u0e49\u0e19\u0e40\u0e04\u0e23\u0e37\u0e48\u0e2d\u0e07\u0e1a\u0e34\u0e19<\/strong> (get in the plane). If there was a boat I needed to ride, I would \u0e25\u0e07\u0e40\u0e23\u0e37\u0e2d<\/strong>. So why would you \u0e02\u0e37\u0e49\u0e19<\/strong> (go up to) the plane but \u0e25\u0e07<\/strong> (go down to) the boat? Well, back in the day, you had to go up a staircase to get in the plane, and go down a ladder to get in a boat. Now we have simple loading ramps making the language so unintuitive for us to learn . . .<\/p>\n

vocabulary (\u0e04\u0e33\u0e28\u0e31\u0e1e\u0e17\u0e4c):<\/p>\n

\u0e01\u0e25\u0e31\u0e1a\u0e1a\u0e49\u0e32\u0e19\u00a0\u00a0 return home<\/p>\n

\u0e04\u0e34\u0e14\u0e16\u0e36\u0e07 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 to miss, or think off<\/p>\n

\u0e2b\u0e22\u0e38\u0e14 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 stop<\/p>\n

\u0e27\u0e31\u0e19\u0e2b\u0e22\u0e38\u0e14 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0short holiday break<\/p>\n

\u0e1e\u0e31\u0e01\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 rest, take a break<\/p>\n

\u0e1e\u0e31\u0e01\u0e07\u0e32\u0e19 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0long break period from work<\/p>\n

\u0e2d\u0e22\u0e39\u0e48\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 added after verbs like an ‘ing’ in English<\/p>\n

\u0e44\u0e1b\u0e40\u0e17\u0e35\u0e48\u0e22\u0e27 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0go traveling (or go on a date)<\/p>\n

\u0e19\u0e31\u0e48\u0e07\u0e41\u0e17\u0e01\u0e0b\u0e35\u0e48 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0sit in a Taxi<\/p>\n

\u0e02\u0e37\u0e49\u0e19\u0e40\u0e04\u0e23\u0e37\u0e48\u0e2d\u0e07\u0e1a\u0e34\u0e19 \u00a0 \u00a0 get into a plane<\/p>\n

\u0e25\u0e07\u0e40\u0e23\u0e37\u0e2d \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0get into a boat<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Not too long ago I finished my most recent 6-month vacation here and Thailand, returning home (\u0e01\u0e25\u0e31\u0e1a\u0e1a\u0e49\u0e32\u0e19) to my beloved US of A. It\u2019s not the first time I’ve spent such a long time here in the Land of Smiles, but I think this time I’ll miss it (\u0e04\u0e34\u0e14\u0e16\u0e36\u0e07) more than ever. So this post…<\/p>\n

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