Incident in Thai

“Incident” in Thai is เหตุการณ์hèet-gaan.

เหตุการณ์ hèet-gaan

event, incident, what happened noun

hèet low
gaan mid

Low: flat and lower than your normal voice, dropping a little at the end.

How to use it

เหตุการณ์hèet-gaan is an event or incident, something that happened, usually serious enough for the news: a protest, an accident, a flood. Someone who อยู่ในเหตุการณ์yùu nai hèet-gaan, "was in the event", saw it happen. The last letter is silent: it's just hèet-gaan.

Planned events, like a concert, a fair or a party, are งานngaan.

Other spellings you'll see

There's no single official way to write Thai in English letters. We mark the tone of every syllable; online you'll also find:

hetkan
het kan
hetkarn
hed karn

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Written by the Learn Thai For Free team
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