News and society ระดับ rá-dàp
level, grade noun
- rá high
- dàp low
- High: start high and go a little higher, a bit tense; don’t let it fall.
- Low: flat and lower than your normal voice, dropping a little at the end.
How to use it
ระดับrá-dàp is a level of anything: a language class, the water in a river during the rainy season, quality, or government. A luxury hotel is ระดับห้าดาวrá-dàp hâa daao, "five-star level", and a national team plays at ระดับชาติrá-dàp châat.
Thai speech has levels too, ระดับภาษาrá-dàp paa-sǎa: the formal Thai of the news is full of words people rarely say at the market.
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:
- radab
- rahdap
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