{"id":944,"date":"2011-11-12T05:27:30","date_gmt":"2011-11-12T05:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/thai\/?p=944"},"modified":"2014-08-27T14:34:14","modified_gmt":"2014-08-27T14:34:14","slug":"how-do-you-say-%e2%80%98i-love-you%e2%80%99-in-thai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/thai\/how-do-you-say-%e2%80%98i-love-you%e2%80%99-in-thai\/","title":{"rendered":"How do you say \u2018I love you\u2019 in Thai?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love you! Ok so it\u2019s not quite Valentines Day . . . but I still love you. True love, from my heart. Well, love in the hippy sense, man. Ok I don\u2019t really love you, I just want to get you all hyped up for today\u2019s lesson of <em>love<\/em>. Lesson on love. Errr, about love. The vocabulary of love, I mean . . . this is getting awkward . . .<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s start with the basics. The very first word is for sure your favorite, a three letter word filled with love. No, not that three letter word. It is \u2018rak4\u2019 <strong>\u0e23\u0e31\u0e01<\/strong>, which means \u2018love\u2019. It\u2019s kind of like the English word \u2018rock\u2019 (rock it out, cold as a rock, etc). But then use the Spanish\/Japanese rolling \u2018r\u2019 sound to it, basically a combination of the letter \u2018r\u2019 and \u2018L\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>You probably know from previous lessons how to say <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/thai\/how-to-say-%E2%80%98i%E2%80%99-in-thai\/\">I<\/a> and you. Just put those three words together and you\u2019re going to get cookie points from your sweet cupcake.<\/p>\n<p>\u0e1c\u0e21\u0e23\u0e31\u0e01\u0e04\u0e38\u0e13 pom5 rak4 kun1 I love you.<br \/>\n\u0e09\u0e31\u0e19\u0e23\u0e31\u0e01\u0e41\u0e21\u0e48 chan5 rak4 mae3 I love mom.<br \/>\n\u0e04\u0e38\u0e13\u0e23\u0e31\u0e01\u0e43\u0e04\u0e23 kun1 rak4 krai1 You love who? (Who do you love?)<br \/>\n\u0e1c\u0e21\u0e23\u0e31\u0e01\u0e19\u0e01 pom5 rak4 nok4 I love Nok.<\/p>\n<p>How do you say \u2018I miss you\u2019?<br \/>\nThe word for \u2018think\u2019 is kid4 <strong>\u0e04\u0e34\u0e14<\/strong>. Now when you say kid4 teung5 <strong>\u0e04\u0e34\u0e14\u0e16\u0e36\u0e07<\/strong> you could be saying \u201cI miss you\u201d. But it could also just mean \u201cI\u2019m thinking about you\u201d &#8211; sure, that can also be a bit romantic. But if a hot girl says this to you, don\u2019t get too excited. It could also mean \u201cthere was this ugly smelly farang on the train today and it got me \u2018thinking about you\u2019.\u201d Anyway, I\u2019d definitely use <strong>\u0e04\u0e34\u0e14\u0e16\u0e36\u0e07<\/strong> when I\u2019m on the phone with my special Thai someone.<\/p>\n<p>An extra special \u2018I love you\u2019 . . .<br \/>\nA more endearing word for \u2018you\u2019 and \u2018she\u2019 is ter1 <strong>\u0e40\u0e18\u0e2d<\/strong>. The \u2018r\u2019 should be pronounced just like the \u2018r\u2019 in \u2018rak4\u2019. It\u2019s a bit difficult to pronounce at first so you may want to practice it before trying it on your girl. Or that random stranger on the other side of the room. Combine the word with \u2018rak4\u2019 and she\u2019ll melt before you. Well . . . hopefully.<\/p>\n<p>\u0e23\u0e31\u0e01\u0e40\u0e18\u0e2d rak4 ter1 I love you. (extra endearing way of saying it)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love you! Ok so it\u2019s not quite Valentines Day . . . but I still love you. True love, from my heart. Well, love in the hippy sense, man. Ok I don\u2019t really love you, I just want to get you all hyped up for today\u2019s lesson of love. Lesson on love. 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