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สวัสดีค่ะ ดิฉันกิตติยาค่ะ (sà-wàt-dii khâ. dì-chǎn Kittaya khâ)
Hi everybody! I’m Kittaya.
Welcome to ThaiPod101.com’s “Learn Thai in 3 minutes.” The fastest, easiest, and most fun way to learn Thai.
In the last lesson, we learned how to use Thai adjectives.
In this lesson we will start talking about the most common Thai verbs, the ones you will certainly hear all the time!
The first verb in our series will be ไป(bpai), which means "to go". We will use this word along with many different destinations.
You will see that in Thai you have to use an appropriate linking word to connect ไป(bpai)
to your destination.
So imagine someone asks you วันหยุดนี้ คุณจะไปที่ไหน(wan-yùt níi khun jà bpai thîi nǎi)? That means "Where are you going this holidays?" in an informal form. Literally “This holiday you going to where?”
So if you are going to Chiang mai for example you will say in Thai ฉันจะไปเชียงใหม่(chǎn jà bpai chiiang-mài)
[slowly] ฉันจะไปเชียงใหม่(chǎn jà bpai chiiang-mài)
So let’s break down this answer:
First we had:
ฉัน(chǎn) which is "I", then
จะไป(jà bpai), which is “going to go to” or “will go to”
as we have learned so far, you can change the noun to ผม(phǒm) if you are a man or ดิฉัน(dì-chǎn) if you are a woman.
After จะไป(jà bpai) will be your destination,
and we had เชียงใหม่(chiiang-mài) which is the name of a city in the north of Thailand.
Let’s imagine when you go to Thailand and take a taxi, the taxi driver ask you คุณต้องการจะไปที่ไหน(khun dtâwng-gaan jà bpai thîi nǎi)? “Where do you want to go?” Literally “you want going to where?
If you want to answer “I want to go to Jatujak park”, say ดิฉันต้องการจะไปที่สวนจตุจักร(dì-chǎn dtâwng-gaan jà bpai thîi sǔuan jà-dtù-jàk)
[slowly] ดิฉันต้องการจะไปที่สวนจตุจักร(dì-chǎn dtâwng-gaan jà bpai thîi sǔuan jà-dtù-jàk)
Let’s break that down. Simply, it is “I want to go to + your destination” “ดิฉันต้องการจะไปที่…(dì-chǎn dtâwng-gaan jà bpai thîi......)”
Now it’s time for Kittaya’s Insights.
In Thai, if someone says to you ไป...กัน(bpai … gan) it means he or she is asking you to do something with them, and in between ไป(bpai) and กัน(gan) can be places or activities.
For example, ไปดูหนังกัน(bpai duu-nǎng gan) means “Let’s go to watch movie”, or another example, ไปอเมริกากัน(bpai à-mee-rí-gaa gan) “Let’s go to America.”
So, in this lesson, we learned how to use the verb bpai. Next time, we’ll learn another very useful verb, tham.
Do you know what this verb means? I’ll be waiting for you in the next Learn Thai in 3 minutes with the answer. สวัสดีค่ะ(sà-wàt-dii khâ)

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