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How To Express Pain In Thai
By RippaSama
How To Express Pain In Thai

Learning how to express "pain" in
Thai can be quite useful when you
need to tell someone which part
of your body is in pain (i.e. to a
doctor when you're in the clinic
or hospital).

It can be quite handy too when you need
to create an excuse or reason to
explain that you have certain "pain"
(e.g. headache).

Well, there are basically two Thai words that
describe pain in Thai. The first one
is the Thai verb, poo-what (ปวด) which means
pain, ache, sore or hurt. and the second one
is the Thai verb Jep (เจ็บ)
which also means pain, sore or hurt.

Using poo-what (ปวด) to express pain

Let's learn how to use the poo-what (ปวด)
to express which part of your
body hurt or ache. By the way,
please remember to practice the writing
Thai script below on a piece of paper. :-)

Using poo-what is really
simple. Just put it right after a pronoun
and place the body part (noun) right
after the Thai verb poo-what.

Here are some simple examples on how
to use the Thai verb poo-what (ปวด) to
express pain:

ผม ปวด หัว
Chan poo-what huaa.
I (feminine) have headache.

ผม ปวด แขน
Pom poo-what khaaen.
My arm hurts.

ผม ปวด ตา
Pom poo-what dtaa
My eye hurts.

Notice the sentence structure in the 1st example.
Huaa actually means head. Literally translated
the sentence would mean "Me pain head" which
also means "My head hurts".

The 2nd and 3rd examples are quite simple.
I merely just changed the last word (body part) so that
you can understand how easy it is to express
pain using poo-what.

Simple, right? Okay, now it's your turn
to create a simple Thai sentence to express
that your nose hurt. You can use the
Thai word ja muuk (จมูก) which means nose.

ผม ปวด ตา
Pom poo-what ja_muuk
My nose hurts.

Using Jep (เจ็บ) to express pain

Okay, now it's time to create longer
and more interesting Thai sentence to express
pain in Thai. Let's use the Thai verb jeb (เจ็บ):

ผม เจ็บ
Pom jeb.
I'm hurt

ไม่เป็นไร นิ้ว ของ ผม เจ็บ นิดหน่อย เท่านั้น ค่ะ
Mai_pen_rai... niu kong pom jep nit nawwy thao_nan khrap.
Never mind... My fingers only hurt a little.

เขา ตก จาก บันได

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