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1. How to ask what are you doing in Thai?
2. What you are doing in Thai reply examples
3. Summary vocabularies that are useful for answering and asking “what you are doing in thai”

One of the typical sentences for small talk in Thai is what are you doing in Thai? Let’s learn useful vocabulary to ask and answer the question “what are you doing in Thai?” and examples for what you are doing in thai reply through this blog together.

How to ask what are you doing in Thai?

What are you doing in Thai is “kun tam à-rai yùu? (คุณทำอะไรอยู่?)” kun (คุณ) is you as polite word in Thai. The casual ways you can say without the word you polite by saying the nickname of the other person or even say without it completely for example:

•  tam à-rai yùu? (ทำอะไรอยู่?)
• Ann tam à-rai yùu? (แอนทำอะไรอยู่?)

yùu (อยู่) is continuous word in Thai. It’s like adding “ing” after a verb in English. There is also another word that we use as continuous word in Thai which is “gam-lang (กำลัง)” So, the other way to say what are you doing in Thai is “kun gam-lang tam à-rai? (คุณกำลังทำอะไร?)” or even both together as “kun gam-lang tam à-rai yùu? (คุณกำลังทำอะไรอยู่?)”

What you are doing in Thai reply examples

• I am working. = pŏm gam-lang tam ngaan yùu (ผมกำลังทำงานอยู่)
• I am cooking. = chán tam aa-hăan yùu (ฉันทำอาหารอยู่)
• I am watching Youtube. = pŏm gam-lang duu Youtube (ผมกำลังดูยูทูป)
• I am doing exercise. = pŏm gam-lang aàwk gam-lang gaai (ผมกำลังออกกำลังกาย)
• I am going back home. = chán gam-lang glàp bâan (ฉันกำลังกลับบ้าน)

Note: 

• pŏm (ผม) is I for man.
• chán (ฉัน) is I for woman.

Summary vocabularies that are useful for answering and asking “what you are doing in thai”

• I for man in Thai is pŏm (ผม).
• I for woman in Thai is chán (ฉัน).
• You in Thai is kun (คุณ).
• Continuous word in Thai is yùu (อยู่) or gam-lang (กำลัง)
• Do in Thai is tam (ทำ).
• What in Thai is à-rai (อะไร).
• Work in Thai is tam ngaan (ทำงาน).
• Cook in Thai is tam aa-hăan (ทำอาหาร).
• Look or watch in Thai is duu (ดู).
• Do exercise in Thai is ออกกำลังกาย (aàwk gam-lang gaai).
• Go back home = กลับบ้าน (glàp bâan)

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