BASIC SENTENCES
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1. What day is today? |
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Robert |
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Saturday |
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to stop (or to cease) |
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day off (or holiday or vacation) |
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2. Saturday, and it's my day off. |
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3. I'd like to go down town and do
a little shopping. |
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| 4. Do you have anything to do? |
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| to lead (or to guide) |
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| to lead the way |
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| 5. If you don't, I'd like
for you to show me around a little. ('If you don't have, help lead the way [for] me a little.') |
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| 6. I still don't know
where things are. ('I still don't know where anything is at all.') |
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Pràphan |
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7. O.K. |
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to have fun |
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| 8. I'd like to go to town ('go around in town'), too; that'd be fun. |
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| car (of any kind) |
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| streetcar |
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| to get on a streetcar (or to catch a streetcar) |
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| 9. Let's go catch the streetcar at the corner. |
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Robert |
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| why |
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| automobile |
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| to rent |
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| taxi |
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| 10. Why, don't they have taxis? |
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Pràphan |
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| fare |
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| 11. Yes, but the fare's a lot higher. |
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Robert |
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| 12. How soon'll the streetcar come? |
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Pràphan |
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| 13. In five minutes ('another five minutes'). |
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| hour |
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| 14. There's one ('it comes') every half hour. |
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Robert |
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| to be straight |
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| to be just right |
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| 15. There, the car came
right on time. (They get on the car.) |
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| to start (or to begin) |
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| 16. Sit down! The car's
starting off now. ('The streetcar is starting to leave already.') |
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| school |
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| 17. That's a school,
isn't it, that we're just passing? |
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| to be next to |
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next to that |
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| hospital |
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18.
Yes, and next to it's a hospital. |
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to
cross (or across) |
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| bridge |
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| 19. We're crossing the bridge now; in a little while [we]'ll be in town ('[we]'ll reach in town'). |
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Robert |
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| to get off (of a car) |
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| 20. Where do we get off? |
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Pràphan |
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| street |
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| a street in Bangkok |
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| 21. ([We] get off) at phaahurat Street. |
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| clothing store |
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| market |
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to be near (or to be
close) |
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22. There's [where]
they have quite a few clothing stores and right near there they have markets, too. |
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Robert |
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tailor-shop |
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23. I'd like to go to the tailor's first. |
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| to be fat (or to be
heavyset) |
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| to get fat |
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| suit (for a man) |
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| 24. I'm getting fat [and
I] have to buy a new suit. |
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| to be tight (in fit) |
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| to be short (in length) |
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| 25. [My] coat's too tight and [my] pants're too short. |
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| 26. Let's get off here. |
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| 27. There's a tailor
here. |
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| 28. When I've finished at the tailor's, I'd like to buy a couple of shirts. |
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| inner layer |
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| undershirt |
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| shorts (underwear, not sportswear) |
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| underwear |
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| 29. Yes, and I'll buy some underwear. |
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| store ('commercial firm') |
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| 30. At the big stores they
have everything. |
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| razor |
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| medicine |
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| toothpaste |
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| 31. Fine, I'll buy a
razor and [some] toothpaste there, too. |
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| to return |
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| how (or in what way) |
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| 32. When [we]'re through,
how'll we go back? |
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| taxi |
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| to be far |
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| to hold (or to carry while holding) |
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| 33. [I] guess it'd be better ('more suitable') to take a taxi, because it's [pretty] far and we['ll] have to carry a lot of things. |
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| to ride |
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| 34. O.K., I like to ride [in] taxis. |
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**This way of using the word "ขี่" is no longer common among the younger generation of Thai speakers. Instead, they use the word "นั่ง", which actually means "to sit".