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[Thomas]

Yesterday I watched 'Lost in Translation'. Rather, yesterday I was lost in translation. A single sentence (with further context):

ฉันเพิ่งดูหนังเรื่องหนึ่งจบ

My biggest mistake, as I know now, was to translate หนังเรื่อง as outlined here

http://www.thai-language.com/id/213517

Rather, this here นังเรื่องหนึ่ง is the "first part of ..." I would say in German "Dreiteiler" (TV, film) which translates into "three-part series".

1. I cannot find the term "three-part series" in the dic here. How to call this in Thai?
2. The heading of this short story reads "ฉันดูหนังวันนี้" but as it turns out in the overall context that this heading seems to be โกหก because on this day only part I of three-part series "Star Wars I-III" was watched. Is there a better Thai term for the heading? One could say, of course, it a little bit lengthy:

Today I started to watch a (is the English term plural? German 'Dreiteiler, der' is singular) three part series.

TIA for any suggestion or translation.

[Richard Wordingham]

Today I started to watch a (is the English term plural? German 'Dreiteiler, der' is singular) three part series.

The English term is singular when it refers to one series. English word series is slightly peculiar, in that the possessive form, both singular and plural, can be series', as in I missed the series' final episode.

[Thomas]

Thank you Richard, in effect I could have found the answer by myself. In the context of film the better German wording is 'Dreiteiler' (or 'Mehrteiler'). The term 'Serie [singular], Serien [plural]' exists in German as well but is used for something like this here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derrick_%28TV_series%29 (---> Ger. "Fernsehkrimiserie")

And (or but), 'sery' is no English. Thank you again.

[Tgeezer]

Yesterday I watched 'Lost in Translation'. Rather, yesterday I was lost in translation. A single sentence (with further context):

ฉันเพิ่งดูหนังเรื่องหนึ่งจบ

My biggest mistake, as I know now, was to translate หนังเรื่อง as outlined here

http://www.thai-language.com/id/213517

Rather, this here นังเรื่องหนึ่ง is the "first part of ..." I would say in German "Dreiteiler" (TV, film) which translates into "three-part series".

1. I cannot find the term "three-part series" in the dic here. How to call this in Thai?
2. The heading of this short story reads "ฉันดูหนังวันนี้" but as it turns out in the overall context that this heading seems to be โกหก because on this day only part I of three-part series "Star Wars I-III" was watched. Is there a better Thai term for the heading? One could say, of course, it a little bit lengthy:

Today I started to watch a (is the English term plural? German 'Dreiteiler, der' is singular) three part series.

TIA for any suggestion or translation.

วันนี้ผมดูหนังstar wars ถาคแรกจากสามภาค

[Thomas]

วันนี้ผมดูหนังstar wars ถาคแรกจากสามภาค

Thank you, Tgeezer!
Is it possible that ถาค is a typo? I cannot find the term both here and in RID. ถาด?

[David and Bui]

"ภาค" See http://www.thai-language.com/id/133121 definition 1.

For example, "ดูหนังออนไลน์ Star Wars Episode 1 The Phantom Menace สตาร์ วอร์ส ภาค 1 ภัยซ่อนเร้น"

[Richard Wordingham]

วันนี้ผมดูหนังstar wars ถาคแรกจากสามภาค

Assuming ถาค is a typo for ภาค, this just tells us that the appropriate word for 'part' is ภาค.

However, looking up 'trilogy', I find ละครสามเรื่อง, which seems idiomatic enough. The only problem is that it may imply too much coherence within each episode.

[David and Bui]

I am testing out the word "ไตยภาค". I can't find it in the RID, but a Google search shows a site showing "หนังไตรภาค".

What do you think?

[Thomas]

Many thanks, Tgeezer, Richard, and David.

I feel, the story was about "The Godfather I, II and III", that the proposal of David may fit best for my means, thus

หนังไตรภาค

I really love this term because I translated หนัง within the overall context to 'Dreiteiler', ไตร will have same PIE root as Drei/three, and Sanskrit/Pali bhAga may be directly related to English part (Ger.: Teil).

Like it

Thanks to all.

[Thomas]

I am testing out the word "ไตยภาค". I can't find it in the RID, but a Google search shows a site showing "หนังไตรภาค".

What do you think?

Was ไตยภาค here a slip or a deeper thought? If it was the latter, I would be corious how you find out this, i.e. the initial thought as to ไตย.