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VERBS

Thai verbs

508 verbs, every form of each one recorded. 496 follow a pattern; 12 have forms of their own. Open one to hear it.

  1. The essential 50The verbs you will say every day. Start here.
  2. #47 วิ่ง to run Fluency Verb
  3. The next most usedIn the order you are likely to meet them.
  4. #58 เล่น to play (a game, an instrument); to play about Fluency Verb
  5. #70 จบ to end, to be over (a joke, a film, a lesson); to finish (school) Fluency Verb
  6. #78 เชื่อ to believe (someone or something); with the word for not, to doubt Fluency Verb
  7. #84 สามารถ to be able to (the formal word for can, on a form or at an interview) Fluency Helper verb
  8. #120 เค็ม to be salty (food); of a person, stingy, tight with money Fluency Describing verb (adjective)
  9. #145 เหลือ to be left over, to remain Fluency Verb
  10. #151 เสีย to pay (tax, a fee: the office's word); to lose; to be broken Fluency Verb
  11. #153 แตก to break, to shatter (a cup, a glass) Fluency Verb
  12. #157 ตาย to die; after an adjective, to death, terribly Fluency Verb
  13. #166 ขี่ to ride (a motorbike, a bicycle, an elephant) Fluency Verb
  14. #175 หนี to flee, to run away (flee from something: the thing follows at once, as in the proverb) Fluency Verb
  15. #187 ต้อนรับ to welcome, to receive (a guest, an audience) Fluency Verb
  16. #192 ขำ to laugh, to find something funny Fluency Verb
  17. #199 ปีน to climb (a tree, a ladder, onto a roof) Fluency Verb
  18. #217 ตบ to pat, to clap (hands); to slap lightly Fluency Verb
  19. #221 กัด to bite (food; a dog, a mosquito) Fluency Verb
  20. #225 เป่า to blow (a whistle, on hot food) Fluency Verb
  21. #226 หายใจ to breathe Fluency Verb
  22. #227 ไอ to cough (a person, or an engine that coughs) Fluency Verb
  23. #231 แพ้ to lose (a game, a match); to be allergic to Fluency Verb
  24. #254 ตำ to pound (in a mortar: som tam, chilli, garlic) Fluency Verb
  25. #262 เลี้ยง to raise, to bring up (a child); to treat someone to a meal Fluency Verb
  26. #283 เลิก to quit, to stop doing (a habit, a job), to give up; of a stall or a shop, to close for the night Fluency Verb
  27. #286 สรุป to sum up, to conclude (in short: with the little word for that) Fluency Verb
  28. #287 อธิบาย to explain (explain to someone: the giving word and the person after it) Fluency Verb
  29. #288 แนะนำ to introduce (someone); to recommend Fluency Verb
  30. #289 เตือน to warn, to remind (warn that: with the little word for that; a saying warns us to: with the giving word) Fluency Verb
  31. #309 ลงชื่อ to sign (the form's word: to put down one's name) Fluency Verb
  32. #327 จด to jot down, to note, to write down (in a notebook, on a list) Fluency Verb
  33. #330 ทาย to guess (guessed right, guessed wrong: with the words for right and wrong after it) Fluency Verb
  34. #347 ปล่อย to leave (a box blank, a thing as it is), to let go, to let someone do something Fluency Verb
  35. #349 แอบ to do something secretly, on the sly (in front of another verb: film secretly, listen in) Fluency Verb
  36. #351 ชม to praise, to compliment (someone or something) Fluency Verb
  37. #363 ห่วง to worry about Fluency Verb
  38. #368 ตื่นเต้น to be excited, to be nervous (before something) Fluency Describing verb (adjective)
  39. #369 เซ็ง to be fed up, bored stiff (the soi's word; the plain twin is the word for bored) Fluency Describing verb (adjective)
  40. #373 นึก to think of, to picture in the mind (imagine: try, think, picture) Fluency Verb
  41. #399 จืด to be bland (food, with no salt and no chilli); of a person, dull, too nice Fluency Describing verb (adjective)
  42. #409 โบก to wave (a hand, an arm, a flag); to wave someone over or away Fluency Verb
  43. #410 เข็น to push, to wheel along (a cart, a motorbike, a pram) Fluency Verb
  44. #415 หมุน to turn, to spin round (a boat, a wheel, a key) Fluency Verb
  45. #424 ตอก to drive in, to hammer (a nail, a wooden peg) Fluency Verb
  46. #425 ตั้งชื่อ to name Fluency Verb
  47. #426 ไล่ to chase out, to bleed a line Fluency Verb
  48. #431 ล้อม to fence in, to surround (a pen, a yard, a crowd round a stall) Fluency Verb
  49. #435 ฉาย to show (a film), to shine Fluency Verb
  50. #455 ขอบพระคุณ to thank (the formal thank you, with the word for respect inside it: to an elder, in a speech) Fluency Verb
  51. #456 ขอบใจ to thank (the thank you an elder or a boss says to someone younger; the young say the other word back) Fluency Verb
  52. #458 พิสูจน์ to prove (that a thing is so, with a paper or a stamp) Fluency Verb
  53. #460 ดำเนินการ to proceed, to process (the office word for do) Fluency Verb
  54. #461 อนุมัติ to approve (an application: the office word; approved already with the word for already, or has received the approval) Fluency Verb
  55. #462 ปฏิเสธ to refuse, to turn down (an application: the office word; with the done-to word in front, to be refused) Fluency Verb
  56. #465 ประกอบ to carry on (an occupation: the formal verb of a form and an interview); to assemble Fluency Verb
  57. #467 กลาย to turn into, to become (with the word for be after it; the change done: with go, already) Fluency Verb
  58. #468 ย้อน to go back (in time), to turn back; with the word for behind, back over the past years Fluency Verb
  59. #476 แซว to tease (the soi word: to rib someone in front of everyone) Fluency Verb
  60. #477 หยอก to tease gently, to kid (a child, a friend) Fluency Verb
  61. #482 ท้า to dare someone, to challenge (a dare: the word for word in front of it) Fluency Verb
  62. #483 กล้า to dare, to have the nerve to (do something); with not, to not dare Fluency Describing verb (adjective)
  63. #485 พลาด to slip up, to make a mistake; to miss (a boat, a chance) Fluency Verb
  64. More verbs from the lessons
  65. 506 แป้ก to fall flat (a joke that nobody laughs at); the stall's word Fluency Describing verb (adjective)
  66. 507 ประสงค์ to wish (the office word for want, on a form or at a window) Fluency Helper verb
  67. 508 ยา to caulk Fluency Verb