Thai Love Phrases
Lots of you come to Thailand Musings looking for Thai love phrases and that’s not surprising. You want to be able to express yourself in your new Thai girlfriends native language and that’s a really good thing. It help you to understand the culture a little better and it gives her a really good feeling too. By learning some Thai language she knows that you are more committed and that you are interested in her culture.
When Golf and I first met and started chatting on Thai Love Links I struggled to find a good resource for Thai language. I didn’t need to become proficient, but I wanted to be able to express my feelings for her in a way I knew she would understand and I wanted her to know that I cared for her so much that I was willing to take the time to learn her language.
So, for those of you that want or need to speak the language of love in Thai here’s a small dictionary of Thai love phrases that are sure to impress and excite your new Thai girlfriend. I guarantee she will be amazed and impressed. If you’re having trouble with pronunciation you can ask her for help too which will help to make your relationship more concrete.
And if you really want to impress your new friend why not give our Thai translation service a try. For a very reasonable fee Golf and I will translate your email from English to Thai or your girls email from Thai to English. In addition to being affordable we also offer 24 hour turnaround and complete privacy.
Beginning Your Relationship
I am single. (pom yung sot) ผมยังโสด
You are very beautiful. (koon suay mak mak) คุณสวยมากๆ
You are very cute. (koon na-ruk mak mak) คุณน่ารักมากๆ
I like your smile. (pom chorp roi yim kong koon) ผมชอบรอยยิ้มของคุณ
Can I see you tomorrow? (proong nee jer gun dai mai) – For yes the reply is “dai” and for no the reply is “mai dai” พรุ่งนี้เจอกันได้ไหม? ได้ / ไม่ได้
Are you free tonight? (keun nee koon wang mai) – For yes the reply is “wang” and for no the reply is “mai wang” คืนนี้คุณว่างไหม? ว่าง / ไม่ว่าง
Do you like me? (koon chorp pom reu blao) – For yes the reply is “chorp” and for no the reply is “mai chorp” คุณชอบผมหรือเปล่า? ชอบ / ไม่ชอบ
Can you go out with me? (bai tee-o gup pom dai mai) – For yes the reply is “dai” and for no the reply is “mai dai” ไปเที่ยวกับผมได้ไหม? ได้ / ไม่ได้
Do you have a boyfriend/girlfriend? (koon mee faen reu yung) – For yes the reply is “me” and for no the reply is “yung mai mee” คุณมีแฟนหรือยัง? มี / ยังไม่มี
What kind of men do you like? (koon chorp poo-chai bap nai) คุณชอบผู้ชายแบบไหน?
Can you tell me your phone number please? (kor ber tor koon dai mai) – For yes the reply is “dai” and for no the reply is “mai dai” ขอเบอร์โทรคุณได้ไหม? ได้ / ไม่ได้
Do you want to go and eat with me? (bai gin kao gub pom mai) – For yes the reply is “bai” and for no the reply is “mai bai” ไปกินข้าวกับผมไหม? ไป / ไม่ไป
Do you want to go to watch a movie? (bai doo nung gup pom mai) – For yes the reply is “bai” and for no the reply is “mai bai” ไปดูหนังกับผมไหม? ไป / ไม่ไป
Your eyes are so beautiful. (duang dtar kong koon suay mak) ดวงตาของคุณสวยมาก
Can I hold your hand? (pom kor jub meu koon dai mai?) ผมขอจับมือคุณได้ไหม?
Have a nice dream. (fun dee na) ฝันดีนะ
Take care of yourself. (do lae dtua eng duay na) ดูแลตัวเองด้วยนะ
Taking it to the Next Level
Love at first sight. (ruk raek pop) รักแรกพบ
I still remember the first moment we met. (pom yung jum krang-raek tee row pob gun dai) ผมยังจำครั้งแรกที่เราพบกันได้
I want you to be happy. (pom dtong gan hai koon mee kwarm sook) ผมต้องการให้คุณมีความสุข
You make me happy. (koon tam hai pom mee kwarm sook) คุณทำให้ผมมีความสุข
I miss you. (pom kit teung koon) ผมคิดถึงคุณ
I miss you all the time. (pom kit-teung koon dta-lod way-la) ผมคิดถึงคุณตลอดเวลา
Can you be my girlfriend? (ben faen gub pom dai mai) – For yes the reply is “dai” and for no the reply is “mai dai” เป็นแฟนกับผมได้ไหม? ได้ / ไม่ได้
You are my girlfriend. (koon ben fan kong pom) คุณเป็นแฟนของผม
You are my sweetheart. (koon keu yot -ruk kong pom) คุณคือยอดรักของผม
You are the one I have been waiting for. (koon bpen kon dieow tee pom ror koi) คุณเป็นคนเดียวที่ผมรอคอย
I am serious about you. (pom jing jai gup koon) ผมจริงจังกับคุณ
I think about you all night. (pom kit teung koon tung keun) ผมคิดถึงคุณทั้งคืน
I want to meet you. (pom dtong-gan/yaak pop koon) ผมต้องการ/อยากพบคุณ
I want to hug you. (pom dtong-gan/yaak got koon) ผมต้องการ/อยากกอดคุณ
Can I kiss you? (pom kor joop koon dai mai) ผมขอจูบคุณได้ไหม
I want to be with you. (pom yaak yoo gup koon) ผมอยากอยู่กับคุณ
Do you miss me? (koon kit teung pom baang mai) คุณคิดถึงผมบ้างไหม?
I won’t forget you. (pom ja mai leum koon) ผมจะไม่ลืมคุณ
When do you want me to come back? (koon dtong gan hai pom glup ma muea rai) คุณต้องการให้ผมกลับมาเมื่อไหร่
When You’re Ready to Marry Your Thai Girlfriend
I think I have fallen in love with you. (pom kit wa pom long ruk koon) / (pom kit wa pom dtok loom ruk koon) ผมคิดว่าผมหลงรักคุณ / ผมคิดว่าผมตกหลุมรักคุณ
My heart is yours. (hua jai kong pom ben kong koon) หัวใจของผมเป็นของคุณ
You are my angel. (koon keu nung fa kong pom) คุณคือนางฟ้าของผม
I love you. (pom ruk koon) ผมรักคุณ
I will be faithful to you. (pom ja seu-sut dtor/gub koon) ผมจะซื่อสัตย์ต่อ/กับคุณ
I don’t want to let you go. (pom mai dtong-gan hai koon bai) ผมไม่ต้องการให้คุณไป
Can I meet your parents? (pom ja bai pob por gub mae kong koon dai mai) – For yes the reply is “dai” and for no the reply is “mai dai” ผมจะไปพบพ่อกับแม่ของคุณได้ไหม? ได้ / ไม่ได้
I want to see your face every day. (pom yaak hen na koon took wan) ผมอยากเห็นหน้าคุณทุกวัน
I want to marry you. (pom dtong-gan dtang ngan gub koon) ผมต้องการแต่งงานกับคุณ
I can’t live without you. (pom yoo mai dai ta mai mee koon) ผมอยู่ไม่ได้ถ้าไม่มีคุณ
If There’s Trouble
I hope I can see you again. (pom wang wa ja dai pob koon eek-krang) ผมหว้งว่าจะได้พบคุณอีกครั้ง
Can you give me one more chance? (hai aow-gat pom eek-krang dai mai) – For yes the reply is “dai” and for no the reply is “mai dai” ให้โอกาสผมอีกครั้งได้ไหม? ได้ / ไม่ได้
I will never cheat on you (pom ja mai nork jai koon) ผมจะไม่นอกใจคุณ
Your love is very important to me. (kwarm ruk kong koon sam kun dtor/sam-rap pom mak) ความรักของคุณสำคัญต่อ/สำหรับผมมาก
Please speak to me. (dai brot poot gup pom) ได้โปรดพูดกับผม
You hurt me so much. (koon tam pom jep-bpuat mak) คุณทำผมเจ็บปวดมาก
Please trust me. (brot chuea jai pom) โปรดเชื่อใจผม
I want you to trust me. (pom dtong gan hai koon chuea jai pom) ผมต้องการให้คุณเชื่อใจผม
I never lied to you. (pom mai koie gor hok koon) ผมไม่เคยโกหกคุณ
Don’t leave me. (ya ting pom) อย่าทิ้งผม
I will always be on your side. (pom ja yoo kiang-kang koon sa-mer) ผมจะอยู่เคียงข้างคุณเสมอ
Obviously this is not complete, but it will give you a great start and if possible get your Thai girlfriend to help you expand on your vocabulary. If you’re interested in more Thai language guides leave a comment telling me what you need to know and I’ll do my best to put together additional guides. And if you want to hear the phrases maybe I can get Golf to record them and we’ll post them up here. As always, I’m here to help in anyway, just leave a comment and ask.
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Hi, I would like to ask this.
How can I ask her, whether we are considered a couple, or in a relationship in Thai? It’s a complicated, and delicate situation right now, so I would really appreciate some help with this translation.
Thanks a million.
wa khaai ka = what do you wanna say?
can someone please translate this to english?? –> wa khaai ka
Hi ! what is the meaning of this ” na ka tee rak ”
Thanks for help !
it means , very cute baby
Tee rak means “love” as in “my love” or “darling”. Na ka is just a polite and sweet suffix and has no intrinsic meaning on its own.
It means : Thank you Darling….teerak is darling…..na ka is a polite term for thank you.
hi, i hope someone can tell me what this mean:
ปลดกเลดทดลปทกสกสเ
Disconnect the ground lead in the SVG t vertices.
I don’t think it means much of anything. For one thing, the last letter is in the wrong place and can not sit after a consonant. It just appears to be random letters of the Thai script.
Hello Thank You for putting up this site it really helped me out huge! I met my Thai girlfriend here in Vegas while she was here on an internship i met her the first month she got here in April and we hit it off from the start after two and a half more months by the end of June she had to leave back to Thailand to finish her last year left in college she made me promise her that i would go to Thailand to see her again and be with her. I’m saving up now and heading to Thailand in October and staying for two months we video chat about twice a day for hours at a time and Im really in love with her and im hoping she is with me i met her mother trough video chat as well and Ive been trying to learn the Thai language ever since she left and wen i stumbled onto this site i got her to smile the biggest smile wen i started to tell her some of the things here like u are my angle and sweetheart and things like that so THANK YOU i will marry this girl one day =)
Love it a lot. Can you please translate this
1) mai mao mai kub baan
2) Ruk mai no kon ni
Well I don’t know if this is still wanted, but the first one… I think it say : ไม่เมาไม่กลับบ้าน – that would translate into : not drunk, don’t go home and I would transliterate into : mai mao mai glab baan
The other one, I am not sure about “no” I think that You maybe mean roo then it would be : rak mai roo khun nee or : รักไม่รู้คนนี้ and that could be translated into : Love don’t know this person… But again I may be wrong on that one…
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I believe number 1 is saying ” I don’t want to go home”
However please get another answer also as I have a very limited understanding of Thai, just learning also
Hi, great site
very helpful. Could you help me say:
Thank you for having me in your heart, you are in mine.
Thank’s
Well, one possible solution might be :
ขอบคุณที่ยังมีฉันในใจคุณเสมอคุนก็อยู่ในใจผมเสมอครับ
Khop khun thee yang mee chan nai jai sameeu khun gaaw yuu nai jai phom sameeu khrap
I can not deduct if You are he or she if You are female it would be :
ขอบคุณที่ยังมีฉันในใจคุณเสมอคุนก็อยู่ในใจดิฉันเสมอค่ะ
Khop khun thee yang mee chan nai jai sameeu khun gaaw yuu nai jai dechan sameeu kha
/John
In moments of passion, my girlfriend repeats a phrase which sounds like ‘Oh wei’ – I don’t know what it means, but I hope it’s not unflattering.
My favorite phrase is, You are my angel. (koon keu nung fa kong pom) คุณคือนางฟ้าของผม
Thank you Steve for a great website.
You’re welcome Mike, glad you like it
Please translate Teelok or Tee Lok… just guessing but I think it means funny girlfriend or funny sweetheart but please difine the correct meaning for me. Thank you!
I think you may mean “tee rak” note the r rather than your l.
Nothing “funny” about it at all…just sweetheart, love (noun), or whatever else you would call your loved one
Theerak ที่รัก thee is a classifier or as in this case a prefix to a verb, making it a noun, the verb being rak (may sound like luk in some parts of the country, but still spells rak) รัก love, so theerak mean the person who I love, when used it is mostly used as english speaking lovers use the word “darling”
Thanks Thailandmusings for a great blog. I’m halfway down the first section with one girl and she always smiles at me.
How do I say: are you a top or bottom?
Just FYI Steve man Love at first site ISN’T รักแรกพบ that would be like saying I loved you since i first met you. The correct translation is รักแรกแบบสายฟ้าแลบ the reason this is the proper translation is because just like line of lightning from your eyes to her your meaning is exactly to do with sight. if you say met that would mean the entire meeting let you to love her.
Hey Chris,
Thanks for the possible correction…I’ll pass it by Golf and see what she says since she helped with the translations in the first place.
And thanks too for commenting because it reminded me I have something here from you still that I haven’t posted…it sucks getting old.
I like – are you free tonight? Wang. I just answer wang to everything, and it gives me my own personal satisfaction. Sick, yes… satisfying, oh sure. Here’s a list of what I said to Thai girls when I lived in Patong after first arriving…
How much? Tao rai kup
Another beer. Kor bia eek kup
You like pizza? chawp pizza mai
Mao mai? Are you drunk?
Chawp farang mai? You like foreigners?
Bpy doo-ay, mai? You want to go too?
Ow Mai? Want it?
That’s about the extent of everything I said in Thai for the first few months. I didn’t learn much more after that either!
Cheers man…
LOL…yeah I guess that’s about all you would need to know in Patong man.
Hello I have been working with this woman for several monthst now and I can’t stop thinking about her. She on my mind from the tome I wake til I fall asleep and ecru night I dream of her and I growing old together. We exchange conversation and smiles and even some flirtting but I have not had the courage to ask her out. She speaks English very well…I want to ask her out but I don’t know what to say without offending the very traditional life she leads. Please helpful Mathea is the most beautiful flower I’ve ever seen and I don’t want miss out on being able to express that to her
If she speaks English well then just ask her out as you would in your own country. Be polite and respectful and you’ll be fine.
Please remember if she is so special and wonderful woman she will also have an understanding of tolerance for your little mistakes due to you enthusiasm.
Also remember you love the woman, and her family, and the relations and possibly have to support some if not all of them.
I myself support a very large extended family, including houses x 4, cars x 3 plus everything else.
But then I love my Thai wife very much.
I want to say to a girl that when I see her it is love at first sight รักแรกพบ…but I want to say it happens every time I see her.
Would this work รักแรกพบ…ครั้งแล้วครั้งเล่า
thx
hey i met a thai girl last month in thailand and she doesnt speak much english i want to ask her for her address so i can send her a birthday present how do i type it in thai ?????
ask her postal address
Hello there Steve, I want to thank you and Golf for putting this website up. It sure makes it a lot easier to let my girl friend here in Saensuk, Chonburi, know how I feel and there is even a wedding in the future, how cool is that. Keep up the great work John.
You’re very welcome John. I’m glad its helping you and your girlfriend and wish the best to you both.
It would be nice, for a change, if you, or someone else, could give advice to a farang women in a relationship with a Thai man. Speaking as an English woman recently separated from her Thai husband because of domestic violence towards her. Please don’t always assume it’s only farang men who seek Thai women, it can be the other way round.
You are right but I think you should find a Thai man who won’t treat you like your a Thai lady ie violence. I`m not saying Thai men are bad as there are good and bad in every race maybe you should find one that doesn’t hit you. My advice to you is you should find someone else. Thai men are not always known for treating their women good but then again you might get lucky and find a good one. They are out there just don’t go looking in the bars.
Or just come back to Farangs, isn’t that why Thai women come to the other side?
no, most of the time it’s for the money. The rest of the time it’s for the look… or for better sex. But there is plenty of Thai that are romantic and sweet.
Best advise is to seek a good family. Money is not what is important it is if you can find a mutual love
I wonder about someone who is in such a
relationship that they are considering
marriage soon and needs to be told how
to speak to his/her spouse.
hello its called language difference and I know what I want to say just not in her language and I think I speak for a lot of people I am fluent in 3 languages, however, Thai is not one of them so please before you make a comment like that consider the many variables that are involved.
I remember a dodgy pick up phrase from many years ago. “Yak long na ja?”
As it was explained to me it basically meant “Do you want to test me out?” but was a slang way of saying “Let’s f**k and see if we’re compatible”.
Korp Khun mak mak Khrup! For making this website! It is so thoughtful and all of us whose hearts belong to kon Thai’s appreciate your efforts
Fun Dee Na,
~Mayk~
Hi Ben,
Roughly means “Finally it’s over. Thank god”.
Hi may i know what is the meaning of ~สิ้นสุดกันสักที~ ไร้สาระ
Hi Paul, it means ok darling.
it actually means ok my love.
Hey. My girlfriend just texted me “Ok ka tee ruk”. Any idea what that means?
ok = ok
ka = being polite
tee ruk = my love
ok my love.
Could you tell me what lik jid means? Also wondering what lok jid means.
lok jid means your insane bro! I get it all the time.
Dear Steve, most of your readers seem satisfied with your advice, regrettably I am not. My fiancee and I plan to marry next August in Thailand.I printed off your ” Thai Love Phrases “,and with the intention of being amusing and showing my enthusiasm for her language I used one of your expressions. The atmosphere on our Skype conversation became suddenly cold, she said I was being ” very rude “, and after several refusals to explain what had offended her, she merely said ” I’m a University-educated woman, you speak to me as if I’m a common whore “. No amount of apologies could elicit what I/your dictionary had incorrectly translated. ” Can you give me one more chance ?” you may wish to comment. The phrase was ” hai aow-gat pom eek-krang dai mai “! sincerely alan.
The translation is not from a dictionary, it is from my university educated Thai wife. She suggests that possibly your pronunciation was to blame for the misunderstanding. The translation though is correct. Perhaps if you are asking for “one more chance” your fiancee is being overly sensitive?
Steve, unfortunately Alan is correct it is wrongly transcripted into english letters…
เอา = aow = want (often used in sexual meaning “I want You”)
โอกาส = sala or as vovel, should transcribe into orgaat, meaning chance or opportunity.
ให้โอกาสผมอีกครั้งได้ไหม = hai or gaat phom eek khrang dai mai, would be “correct”
Regards.
Mai loo wa tur ja jer khun eig What does this mean in Eng thanks!
Have no idea that she will see you again.
I checked this with my Thai language teacher and my “university” educated GF. Both agreed there is nothing wrong with saying this…i fear you might be trolling!
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With much experience behind this comment I advise to let her go.
This type of woman will never be a good wife. Head strong and always want to be the winner, you will be a servant to this woman in the worst way. I apologize if I hurt your feeling but you need to seriously reconsider where you stand in a relationship.