Catherine Wentworth

I spent hours collecting top verbs, nouns, adjectives, adverbs, numbers, word phrases, past, present and future tenses, with help from my Thai teacher and Thai friends As you can imagine, it was a lot of work. With it partly complete, I decided to share my efforts here. For easy viewing, the pdf is designed in … Read more

The Double อยู่ construct is used to describe an unexpected or surprise action. Depending on how colorful you want to be, it’s interesting how this construct can be translated (or rather, interpreted) into English in so many ways. Pattern The Double อยู่ pattern is usually: อยู่ๆ … ก็ … อยู่ๆ: อยู่ อยู่. It’s a doubling … Read more

In this post, we will use the vocabulary from the High Frequency Thai Vocabulary List to work with Yes/No question patterns. Please note that there are many many Thai question patterns and as usual we are only going to give examples of a few of the more common ones here.  Yes/No Thai and English Question … Read more

100 essential Thai words for beginners with Thai script, pronunciation, and English meaning, plus tone tips and example sentences to start using them.

A list of the 3,000 most common Thai words with English glosses, part of speech and category, ordered by frequency so you learn the useful ones first.

Adjectives are words that describe nouns. Thai and English treat adjectives a bit differently. The word order is different. English uses adjective + noun as in “big dog”, and “white rabbit”. The Thai word order is the opposite, noun + adjective, as in “หมาตัวใหญ่” and “กระต่ายสีขาว”. Thai adjectives also do not use the “be” verb … Read more

The full Thai alphabet reference: all 44 consonants and 32 vowels, the three consonant classes, true consonant clusters, and live vs. dead syllables.