Small wordswe, us pronoun
- rao mid
- Mid: level, in your normal speaking voice.
Friends also use it casually to mean 'I'.
we, us (all of us) pronoun
- pûak falling
- rao mid
- Falling: start high and drop clearly, like a firm “No!”
Taught in Unit 2 · Lesson 1: What's your name? of the free course.
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เราrao is "we" and "us", and in casual speech, chats and songs it often means "I": a soft, neutral word that many women and young people use instead of ฉันchǎn. พวกเราpûak-rao makes it clearly plural, "all of us". Thai has no separate word for "our": put เราrao after the noun, as in บ้านเราbâan rao, our house.
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:
- rau
- phuak rao
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