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เพื่อ

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Thai

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Etymology

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Cognate with Lao ເພື່ອ (phư̄a), ᦵᦗᦲᧈ (poe¹), Shan ပိူဝ်ႈ (pōe).

Pronunciation

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Orthographic/Phonemicเพื่อ
e b ụ̄ ˋ ɒ
RomanizationPaiboonpʉ̂ʉa
Royal Institutephuea
(standard) IPA(key)/pʰɯa̯˥˩/(R)

Preposition

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เพื่อ (pʉ̂ʉa)

  1. for.

Conjunction

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เพื่อ (pʉ̂ʉa)

  1. (archaic) for; since; because.

Adverb

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เพื่อ (pʉ̂ʉa)

  1. (slang) why.

Interjection

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เพื่อ (pʉ̂ʉa)

  1. (slang) why?; for what?

Derived terms

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Further reading

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  • เพื่อ” 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.