How to use adjectives in Thai

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Thai adjectives

Adjectives are generally used to describe nouns. Unlike English, adjectives in Thai are placed after the noun.

Examples

bân lék

the small house

bân mài

the new house

bân sī dam

the black house

bân gào

the old house

bân yài

the big house

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Step 7 : Adjectives in Thai

Adjectives are used to describe nouns. To get started, we suggest you learn the three Thai adjectives yai, lek and gao (big, small, old). Using the nouns nângsû, gaoī and bràtdū (book, chair, door) which you learned in Step 3, learn to use each adjective with each noun (the big book, the old chair, the small door). You can scroll to the top of this page to see a short lesson about Thai adjectives including useful examples. After you've learned to use the adjectives yai, lek and gao with the nouns nângsû, gaoī and bràtdū you can move on to Step 8 (Thai Verbs).

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