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There is no direct translation for ’embarrassed’ in Thai. I know, it\u2019s a word we use often in English, but I find it a challenge to convey the same feeling of the word when I speak Thai. It turns out that the English word is actually very broad in definition, whereas Thais use specific words to describe subsets of embarrassment.<\/p>\n
The first word I’ll go over is ‘shy’. Sometimes you feel embarrassed because you are shy, so it\u2019s the appropriate word to use. The word is \u0e2d\u0e32\u0e22<\/strong>. To express that something has made you feel very shy, you’d say \u0e19\u0e48\u0e32\u0e2d\u0e32\u0e22\u0e08\u0e31\u0e07<\/strong>. The word \u0e08\u0e31\u0e07<\/strong> makes it sound somewhat cute and emotional, expressing that although you feel shy, you are mature enough to verbalize it.<\/p>\n He spoke in such a way it made me feel embarrassed.<\/p>\n \u0e40\u0e02\u0e32\u0e1e\u0e39\u0e14\u0e43\u0e2b\u0e49\u0e09\u0e31\u0e19\u0e2d\u0e32\u0e22.<\/p>\n If you give your girlfriend suggestions on how to dress for when you go out, but she feels it\u2019s too sexy\/skimpy, she might in her defense say ‘\u0e2d\u0e32\u0e22\u0e40\u0e02\u0e32<\/strong>‘. No, she isn’t afraid of \u0e40\u0e02\u0e32, she\u2019s just saying she’ll be too embarrassed to be seen in public dressed like that. Probably extra so if she is Thai and you’re a big overweight balding middle-aged British farang. I kid . . . seriously, just a bad joke!<\/p>\n Now if it\u2019s so embarrassing that you feel ashamed and\/or humiliated, you’d use the word \u0e01\u0e23\u0e30\u0e14\u0e32\u0e01\u0e43\u0e08<\/strong>. But it’s not a very common thing to say . . . You are probably familiar with the Thai cultural concept of ‘saving face’. A person who ‘loses face’ in effect is also embarrassed. So if you feel embarrassed because you lost face, you can say ‘\u0e40\u0e2a\u0e35\u0e22\u0e2b\u0e19\u0e49\u0e32<\/strong>‘.<\/p>\n If you do this, I will lose face.<\/p>\n \u0e16\u0e49\u0e32\u0e17\u0e33\u0e2d\u0e22\u0e48\u0e32\u0e07\u0e19\u0e35\u0e49\u0e08\u0e30\u0e17\u0e33\u0e43\u0e2b\u0e49\u0e1c\u0e21\u0e40\u0e2a\u0e35\u0e22\u0e2b\u0e19\u0e49\u0e32.<\/p>\n A more informal way to say ‘lose face’ is \u0e2b\u0e19\u0e49\u0e32\u0e41\u0e15\u0e01<\/strong> (\u0e41\u0e15\u0e01 <\/strong>means broken\/shattered). This is when you do something really stupid, perhaps by accident (clumsiness), resulting in embarrassment. You can say this to make fun of someone who is embarrassed, just keep in mind it’ll probably cause them to not like you . . .<\/p>\n If you did something to gain something, and it resulted in you embarrassing yourself, you can use \u0e02\u0e32\u0e22\u0e2b\u0e19\u0e49\u0e32<\/strong>. It literally means ‘sold your face’. For example, you do something with the intent to impress someone else, but it wasn’t well thought out and instead made yourself look foolish. It can also be applied to shameful things you do in secret, like having an affair and people find out about it.<\/p>\n vocabulary (\u0e04\u0e33\u0e28\u0e31\u0e1e\u0e17\u0e4c):<\/p>\n \u0e2d\u0e32\u0e22 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0shy<\/p>\n \u0e08\u0e31\u0e07 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 added at end to give playful feeling<\/p>\n \u0e2d\u0e32\u0e22\u0e40\u0e02\u0e32 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0shy to be seen by others<\/p>\n \u0e01\u0e23\u0e30\u0e14\u0e32\u0e01\u0e43\u0e08 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 ashamed<\/p>\n \u0e2d\u0e36\u0e14\u0e2d\u0e31\u0e14\u0e43\u0e08\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 uncomfortable<\/p>\n \u0e40\u0e2a\u0e35\u0e22\u0e2b\u0e19\u0e49\u0e32 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 lose face<\/p>\n \u0e2b\u0e19\u0e49\u0e32\u0e41\u0e15\u0e01 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0red-face embarrassed<\/p>\n \u0e02\u0e32\u0e22\u0e2b\u0e19\u0e49\u0e32 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 embarrassed yourself while trying to gain something<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Learn how to translate the word ’embarrassed’ into Thai.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[10208,3],"tags":[11561],"class_list":["post-131","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-beginner","category-culture","tag-embarrassed-shy-lose-face"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/thai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/thai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/thai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/thai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/thai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/thai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1934,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/thai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions\/1934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/thai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/thai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/thai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n \u0e2d\u0e36\u0e14\u0e2d\u0e31\u0e14\u0e43\u0e08<\/strong> means uncomfortable. For example, a sleezy guy hitting on a conservative girl would make her feel \u0e2d\u0e36\u0e14\u0e2d\u0e31\u0e14\u0e43\u0e08<\/strong>. You make me feel uncomfortable is \u0e04\u0e38\u0e13\u0e17\u0e33\u0e43\u0e2b\u0e49\u0e09\u0e31\u0e19\u0e23\u0e39\u0e49\u0e2a\u0e36\u0e01\u0e2d\u0e36\u0e14\u0e2d\u0e31\u0e14\u0e43\u0e08.<\/p>\n