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1. How to say where in Thai?
2. How to say where are you in Thai language?
3. Where do you live in Thai?
4. How to ask where are you going in Thai
5. Summary useful vocabularies for “how to say where are you in Thai language and how to ask where are you going in Thai”

How to ask where are you going in Thai? Let’s learn in this blog about useful vocabularies and how to form sentences in Thai to be able to say where are you going in Thai to have small talk with Thai people.

How to say where in Thai?

Where in Thai is năi (ไหน) or tîi-năi (ที่ไหน). The word tîi (ที่) only means like “at” in English and năi (ไหน) could mean where or which depends on the context.

How to say where are you in Thai language?

To build the sentence where are you in Thai, now we need the word you and the verb to be for location. You in Thai is kun (คุณ) which is polite word and verb to be for location is yùu (อยู่). To build Thai sentences, we can follow this structure.

Subject + Verb + Object/complement

Note: the Thai question words most of the time appear at the end of the sentences so in the opposite way from English.

So, where are you in Thai language? The answer is kun yùu tîi-năi? คุณอยู่ที่ไหน?

Where do you live in Thai?

Where do you live in Thai will be a bit different. The word yùu (อยู่) means verb to be for location in Thai and can mean live as well. However, we have another word which means live in Thai which is “aa-săi yùu (อาศัยอยู่)” It’s more official and more clear as well.

So where do you live in Thai is kun yùu tîi-năi tîi Thai? (คุณอยู่ที่ไหนที่ไทย?) or kun aa-săi yùu tîi-năi tîi Thai? (คุณอาศัยอยู่ที่ไหนที่ไทย?).

How to ask where are you going in Thai

For this sentence, we can use the word go instead of verb to be for location. Go in Thai is bpai (ไป). So where are you going in Thai is “kun gam-lang jà bpai tîi-năi? (คุณกำลังจะไปที่ไหน?)” or in casual way “bpai năi? (ไปไหน?)”

Note: gam-lang jà (กำลังจะ) is like “about to” (happening soon).

Summary useful vocabularies for “how to say where are you in Thai language and how to ask where are you going in Thai”

• Where in Thai is năi (ไหน) or tîi-năi (ที่ไหน).
• At in Thai is tîi (ที่). 
• You in Thai is kun (คุณ). 
• Verb to be for location in Thai is yùu (อยู่).
• Live in Thai is yùu (อยู่) or aa-săi yùu (อาศัยอยู่).
• Go in Thai is bpai (ไป).
• Continuous word in Thai is gam-lang (กำลัง).
• Will in Thai is jà (จะ).
• About to in Thai is gam-lang jà (กำลังจะ).

And this is pretty much all you need to know when you are curious “how to say where are you in Thai language and how to ask where are you going in Thai”. You can look through the list of vocabularies to understand the meaning of each word and see how to build sentences with it. 

When you are not sure how to form sentences to speak Thai, you can always get back to the Thai structure which you can compare a bit with the English structure “Subject + Verb + Object/complement” and the Thai question words most of the time appear at the end of the sentence. 

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