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1. How to say can I pay by card in Thai slang
2. How to say can I pay by card in Thai formal
3. Learn Thai with these useful vocabularies for “how to say can I pay by card in Thai”

When you go shopping in Thailand at the shops or having food at the restaurants, you may wonder if you can pay by card there. Let’s learn Thai from this blog together about how to say can I pay by card in Thai slang or formal ways?

How to say can I pay by card in Thai slang

How to say can I pay by card in Thai slang? You can say in short “can I pay by card? = jàai bàt dâi mái kráp? (จ่ายบัตรได้ไหมครับ?) This is the easiest way to communicate when you want to ask the shop’s owners or restaurants if you can pay by card in Thai.

Note: kráp (ครับ) is polite ending word for man in Thai.

How to say can I pay by card in Thai formal

How to say can I pay by card in Thai formal? You can say for example “Excuse me, do you accept credit card here = kăaw-tôot ná ká / tîi-nîi ráp bàt credit mái ká? (ขอโทษนะคะ ที่นี่รับบัตรเครดิตไหมคะ?)”

Note: ná ká (นะคะ) is one of the polite ending words for woman in Thai.

Learn Thai with these useful vocabularies for “how to say can I pay by card in Thai”

• Pay in Thai is jàai (จ่าย). 
• Card in Thai is bàt (บัตร).
• Can you…? in Thai is dâi mái (ได้ไหม). 

In Thai, you can leave out the pronouns I or you often in sentences and that is the typical way for locals to say in daily life.

• kráp (ครับ) is polite ending word for man in Thai. 
• Excuse me, sorry = kăaw-tôot (ขอโทษ)
• ná ká (นะคะ) is one of the polite ending words for woman in Thai.
• Here = tîi-nîi (ที่นี่)
• Accept, receive = ráp (รับ)
• Card = bàt (บัตร)
• Yes-no question word = mái (ไหม)
• ká (คะ) is polite ending words for woman in Thai for question.

And these are the sentence examples to answer the question you may have in mind “how to say can I pay by card in Thai” The easiest way is to ask directly “jàai bàt dâi mái kráp? (จ่ายบัตรได้ไหมครับ?)”. If you want to be more polite and in more formal way, then you can say “kăaw-tôot ná ká / tîi-nîi ráp bàt credit mái ká? (ขอโทษนะคะ ที่นี่รับบัตรเครดิตไหมคะ?)”

You can learn about each word under Summary of useful vocabularies for “how to say can I pay by card in Thai” to understand the sentence examples better.

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