Small wordsonly, nothing but adverb
- yàang low
- diaw mid
- Low: flat and lower than your normal voice, dropping a little at the end.
กินแต่ผักอย่างเดียวgin dtàe pàk yàang-diaw = to eat nothing but vegetables.
You'll hear it in Jai Pang (ใจพัง).
How to use it
อย่างเดียวyàang-diaw, "a single kind", comes after what it limits: this and nothing else, this alone. It often pairs with แต่dtàe, only, in front of the thing it limits. แค่kâe says "only" before a word, and เท่านั้นtâo-nán, after it, is the firmer "only" of signs and rules; formal Thai has ล้วนlúan, pure, nothing but. The same kind of thing is อย่างเดียวกันyàang-diaw gan.
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:
- yang diao
- yang diaw
- yangdiao
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More small words in Thai
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