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ในสมัยผมยังเป็นเด็ก คือเรื่องมีอยู่ว่า ในตอนนั้นเนี่ยมันเป็นช่วงสงกรานต์พอดีเลย เป็นช่วงไฮซีซันของประเทศไทยนะครับ naiM saL maiR phohmR yangM bpenM dekL kheuuM reuuangF meeM yuuL waaF naiM dtaawnM nanH niiaF manM bpenM chuaangF sohngR graanM phaawM deeM leeuyM bpenM chuaangF haiM seeM sanM khaawngR bpraL thaehtF thaiM naH khrapH |
pronunciation guide | |
Phonemic Thai | ไน-สะ-หฺมัย-ผม-ยัง-เป็น-เด็ก-คือ-เรื่อง-มี-หฺยู่-ว่า-ไน-ตอน-นั้น-เนี่ย-มัน-เป็น-ช่วง-สง-กฺราน-พอ-ดี-เลย-เป็น-ช่วง-ไฮ-ซี-ซัน-ของ-ปฺระ-เทด-ไท-นะ-คฺรับ |
IPA | naj sà mǎj pʰǒm jaŋ pen dèk kʰɯː rɯ̂ːaŋ miː jùː wâː naj tɔːn nán nîːa man pen tɕʰûːaŋ sǒŋ kraːn pʰɔː diː lɤːj pen tɕʰûːaŋ haj siː san kʰɔ̌ːŋ pràʔ tʰêːt tʰaj náʔ kʰráp |
Royal Thai General System | nai samai phom yang pen dek khue rueang mi yu wa nai ton nan nia man pen chuang songkran pho di loei pen chuang haisisan khong prathet thai na khrap |
[example sentence] | |||
definition | "When I was still a kid, as the story goes, during the Songkran festival; it was the high-season in Thailand." | ||
categories | |||
components | ใน | naiM | in; inside; within; amidst; into; on; at a particular time |
สมัย | saL maiR | era; times; period; age | |
ผม | phohmR | [used by male speakers] I; me; my | |
ยัง | yangM | yet; since; not yet; still | |
เป็น | bpenM | to be; <subject> is | |
เด็ก | dekL | child | |
คือ | kheuuM | namely; as follows; thus; as in; to wit; simply; that is | |
เรื่อง | reuuangF | story; account; narrative; chronicle; case; anecdote; subject; title of movie; book; short story; topic; task; matter; undertaking | |
มีอยู่ | meeM yuuL | to exist; remain; once was; have | |
ว่า | waaF | [proposition complementizer] that...; as... [see examples] | |
ใน | naiM | in; inside; within; amidst; into; on; at a particular time | |
ตอนนั้น | dtaawnM nanH | then (at that time) | |
เนี่ย | niiaF | [a particle usually used in the interrogative to indicate emphasis] | |
มัน | manM | [the indefinite pronoun for referring to animals or things] it, they, them | |
เป็น | bpenM | (turn) into (something); so as to become; to form (into) | |
ช่วง | chuaangF | period of time | |
สงกรานต์ | sohngR graanM | Songkran, the Thai New Year festival, celebrated in mid-April | |
พอดี | phaawM deeM | as it turns out; in fact | |
เลย | leeuyM | [used for emphasis at the end of a statement] "...at all." — "...so much!" — "...extremely!; completely, directly; simply, without doing anything else first; right away | |
เป็น | bpenM | (turn) into (something); so as to become; to form (into) | |
ช่วง | chuaangF | period of time | |
ไฮซีซัน | haiM seeM sanM | [Thai transcription of foreign loanword] high season | |
ของ | khaawngR | of; belonging to; that or those of; [a word used with a pronoun to indicate possesion, as in "John's truck"] | |
ประเทศไทย | bpraL thaehtF thaiM | Thailand | |
นะ | naH | [word added to the end of a sentence to soften it, make it polite, indicate pleading, disagreement, ordering, surprise or emphasis] | |
ครับ | khrapH | [word added by a male speaker to the end of every sentence to convey politeness or] "yes"; "that's right"; "I see." | |