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🇹🇭 Thai · Beginner Level 1

PART 3 · LESSON 27 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

How Old Everyone Is

After Sunday lunch, Grandma asks Jack's age: thirty-two, the same as Tee; Grandma is eighty-four, Uncle Chai sixty-two, Nam twenty-nine; who is the older one and who the younger: how old you are, and why Thais ask.

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THE STORY

Grandma's table after Sunday lunch, the family still sitting: Grandma, Uncle Chai, Nam and Jack. Grandma and Uncle Chai speak plainly and say Grandma and Uncle for I; Nam says her own name for I; Jack keeps the polite word.

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แจ็ค อายุ เท่าไหร่?jaek aa-yú thâo-rài?Jack, how old are you?
ผม อายุ สาม สิบ สอง ครับ.phǒm aa-yú sǎam sìp sǎwng khráp.I'm thirty-two.
ลุง ชัย อายุ เท่าไหร่ ครับ?lung chai aa-yú thâo-rài khráp?How old are you, Uncle Chai?
ตี๋ ก็ สาม สิบ สอง. เท่า กัน!tǐi kâw sǎam sìp sǎwng. thâo kan!Tee is thirty-two too. The same!
ยาย ล่ะ ครับ?yaai lâ khráp?And Grandma?
ยาย อายุ แปด สิบ สี่.yaai aa-yú pàet sìp sìi.Grandma is eighty-four.
แปด สิบ สี่ ครับ!pàet sìp sìi khráp!Eighty-four!
เป็น น้องpen náwngis the younger one: the word for is, then younger sibling
ลุง หก สิบ สอง. แจ็ค เป็น น้อง ลุง.lung hòk sìp sǎwng. jaek pen náwng lung.I'm sixty-two. Jack, you're the younger one.
คุณ น้ำ ล่ะ ครับ?khun náam lâ khráp?And Nam?

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