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ทำไม

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Thai

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Etymology

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Corrupted from older ทำไร, the latter from ทำ (tam, to do) +‎ ไร (rai, how, what).

Pronunciation

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Orthographicทำไม
d å ai m
Phonemic
ทำ-ไม
d å – ai m
RomanizationPaiboontam-mai
Royal Institutetham-mai
(standard) IPA(key)/tʰam˧.maj˧/(R)

Pronoun

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ทำไม (tam-mai)

  1. why? what? for what? for what purpose, reason, or cause?
  2. (colloquial) what to do?
    ฉันจะไป เธอจะทำไม
    chǎn jà bpai · təə jà tam-mai
    I'm gonna go. What you gonna do (with me)?

Synonyms

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Further reading

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  • ทำไม” in Thai Dictionary Project (TDP) (UC Berkeley 1964) (plus additional data from the Royal Institute of Thailand (RI) and NECTEC's LEXITRON project (LEX)). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.