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25. คุณพูดภาษาอังกฤษเป็นไหม[khun phut paa-săa ang-grìt bpen măi] = Do You Speak English? | Learn Thai By Sentences

Sà-wàt-dee kráp สวัสดีครับ

Welcome to “Learn Thai by Sentences” blog. Hope everybody has good times since then.

Well, as I have told you previously on my latest posting articles, I will teach you all the sentences “Do you speak English?” and some related sentences in Thai.

Let me suppose you and your friend were in Thailand and you need someone who can speak English for helping you taking your friend to the hospital. You do not understand Thai much at that time.

So, you make a question sentence like as below:

คุณ พูด ภาษา อังกฤษ เป็น ไหม
khun phut paa-săa ang-grìt bpen măi
Do you speak English?

คุณ พูด ภาษา อังกฤษ ได้ ไหม
khun phut paa-săa ang-grìt dâai măi
Do you speak English?

The two sentences above are serving as the same meaning in Thai.

เป็น[bpen] is the verb to be ; adverb-auxiliary = to ; into ; as ; for ; of whereas ได้[dâai] is an adverb-auxiliary, equivalent got to ; did ; get to

You also can use the other two sentences below make some question sentences:

ใคร พูด ภาษา อังกฤษ เป็น บ้าง
khrai phut paa-săa ang-grìt bpen baang
Does anyone speak English?

ใคร พูด ภาษา อังกฤษ ได้ บ้าง
khrai phut paa-săa ang-grìt dâai baang
Does anyone speak English?

Yes, there should be someone replies you as some sentences below:

The two example sentences are followed for a man to say. Because, the pronoun ผม[pŏm] is for a man.

ผม พูด ภาษา อังกฤษ เป็น
pŏm phut paa-săa ang-grìt bpen
I speak English.

ผม พูด ภาษา อังกฤษ ได้
pŏm phut paa-săa ang-grìt dâai
I speak English.

Let's learn the two more example sentences below which are for women to use for speaking. Notice that the pronounce ฉัน[chăn] is for a female.

ฉัน พูด ภาษา อังกฤษ เป็น
chăn phut paa-săa ang-grìt bpen
I speak English.

ฉัน พูด ภาษา อังกฤษ ได้
chăn phut paa-săa ang-grìt dâai
I speak English.

You may also hear somebody saying that "He does not speak English" in Thai as:

ผม ขอโทษ
pŏm khŏr tôht
I am sorry.

ผม พูด ภาษา อังกฤษ ไม่ได้
pŏm phut paa-săa ang-grìt mâi dâai
I don't speak English.

or

ผม พูด ภาษา อังกฤษ ได้ นิดหน่อย
pŏm phut paa-săa ang-grìt dâai nít nòi
I speak English just a little.

If a speaker was a lady, use the sentences below.

ฉัน ขอโทษ
chăn khŏr tôht
I am sorry.

ฉัน พูด ภาษา อังกฤษ ไม่ได้
chăn phut paa-săa ang-grìt mâi dâai
I don't speak English.

or

ฉัน พูด ภาษา อังกฤษ ได้ นิดหน่อย
chăn phut paa-săa ang-grìt dâai nít nòi
I speak English just a little.

See you again,
Sà-wàt-dee kráp สวัสดีครับ

Bye,
Michael Leng

Michael Leng is Thai, has a BA in Hotel management from Ramkhamhaeng University. He had worked for some hotels. Currently he works in logistics field, Bangkok, Thailand. Because of loving in English,  he has written some his own blogs in English-he really wants any feedback about his English he has posted.

To listen the pronounce click this link and then follow by click on the speaker symbol: คุณพูดภาษาอังกฤษเป็นไหม

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ขอโทษ khŏr tôht sorry, apologize
คุณ khun you
ฉัน chăn Pronoun I, me: Commonly used by females (Occasionally, monks and men might use it too).
ได้ dâai got to ; did ; get to
นิดหน่อย nít nòi Adverb a little bit ; just a little ; a tiny bit
บ้าง baang any, some
เป็น bpen is, am, are, was, were
พูด phut speak
ภาษา paa-săa language
ไม่ได้ mâi dâai can't ; cannot
ไหม măi Interrogative (particle used to turn a statement into a question, similar to a question mark), [ Noun ] silk
อังกฤษ ang-grìt Adjective English

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