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15 Thai Love Phrases You Can Learn in 3 Minutes

thai love phrasesThese Thai love phrases are perfect if  you're communicating with a Thai woman/man over the internet, on the phone or in person in Thailand.

These 15 commonly used phrases will come in handy for complimenting your partner and talking in a romantic way.

Once you have read through the phrases below, move along to the video at the bottom of the page. Pay attention to the Thai words that have been translated – as they sound – into English, as these will help you learn the word faster.

Thai Love Phrases Transcript

The Thai language has 5 tones, but for those who can't read the Thai alphabet, I have provided instructions as to when to go up and down in tone for certain words. Use these notes along with the Thai speaker in the video to work on your tones.

Remember, each of these phrases/questions should have the male/female pleasantry attached to the end. If you're a man say “Khrup”, often sounds like “cup”, and if you're a lady say “Ka” at the end of each sentence.

** Remember, if you are copying and pasting the Thai script, make sure you edit the “khrup” and “ka” accordingly at the end before you send it to your date/GF/BF.

15 Thai Love Phrases

1. Can I have your telephone number? – Cor ber tho-ra-sap kong khun dai mai khrup/ka?

ขอเบอร์โทรศัพท์ของคุณได้ไหม ครับ/คะ

(“Cor” goes down in tone. The “ra” in “tho-ra-sap” goes up in tone and the “sap” goes down in tone. “Dai” goes up in tone and “mai” goes down in tone).

2. Can I call you? – Phom thor haa khun dai mai khrap/ka?

ผม/ดิฉันโทรหาคุณได้ไหม ครับ/คะ

(use Chan with a downwards tone if you are a woman. “Haa” goes down in tone, “dai” up in tone and “mai” down in tone).

3. Let's go to eat together – Pai taan khao duai gan na khrub/ka.  

ไปทานข้าวด้วยกันนะ ครับ/คะ

(“pai” sounds more like “by”/”buy”. “Khaao” sounds more like “cow” and goes up in tone. “Duai” goes up in tone. and “na” goes up in tone).

4. Take care of yourself – Duu lae duaeng duai na khrup/ka.

ดูแลตัวเองด้วยนะ ครับ/ค่ะ

(This is a little more difficult. “Duulae” sounds more like “dulair”. “Duai” goes up in tone, as does “na”).

5. You are beautiful – Khun suuway jang loei khrup/ka.

คุณสวยจังเลย ครับ/ค่ะ

(“Suai” has a downward tone”.)

6. You are handsome – Khun law ka.  

คุณหล่อค่ะ

(“Law” has a downward tone and is pronounced more like “lor” rather than “law”).

7. You have beautiful eyes – Daa khun suuway mak khrup/ka.

ตาคุณสวยมาก ครับ/ค่ะ

“Daa” uses the Thai letter ‘Dtor dow', which is a mix of the letter ‘T' and ‘D'. However, when writing in phonetic form we tend to use ‘D' because it's a closer translation. Therefore you may also see “Daa” written as “Taa”.

8. You have a beautiful/wonderful smile – Khun yim suuway khrup/ka.

คุณยิ้มสวย ครับ/ค่ะ

(“Yim” goes upwards in tone, “suuway” goes downwards in tone).

9. I miss you – Khit thueng khun khrup/ka.

คิดถึงคุณ ครับ/ค่ะ

(“Khit” is pronnounced more like “kit”, and has a downward tone).

10. You are cute – Khun naa rak khrup/ka.

คุณน่ารัก ครับ/ค่ะ

(“Naa” goes upward in tone, as does “rak”).

11. You look sexy – Khun duu seksee khrup/ka.

คุณดูเซ็กซี่ ครับ/ค่ะ

(“Duu” has a downward tone. “Seksee” sounds just like “sexy” but with the syllables sustained longer and an upward tone).

12. I really like you – Phom chorp khun mak mak khrup/ka

ผม/ดิฉัน ชอบคุณมาก ครับ/ค่ะ

(“Haa” goes downwards in tone, “dai” upwards and “mai” downwards. If you are female replace “Phom” with “Chan”).

13. I love you – Phom rak khun khrup/ka (male).

ผมรักคุณ ครับ/ค่ะ

(“Phom” goes downwards in tone, as does “rak”).

I love you – Chan rak khun (female).

(“Chan” goes downwards in tone, as does “rak”).

14. You are special – Khun ben con pised khrup/ka

คุณเป็นคนพิเศษ ครับ/ค่ะ

(“Pised” is pronounced “piss-ed”)

15. I want to be with you forever – Phom dong gang yuu gap khun da lort bpai khrup/ka

ผมต้องการอยู่กับคุณตลอดไป ครับ/ค่ะ

As always, use ‘chan' instead of ‘phom' if you are a woman.

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  2. I have a question ,
    You wrote that : ( If you’re a man say “Khrup”, often sounds like “cup” )
    but Khrup we use with formel right ? why should i use if i want to talk with close person like my girlfriend or my wife ?

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    • Good question. It really depends on the type of conversation and the circumstances, and is something you’ll get a feel for as your learning progresses.

      Couples in the early stages of dating will tend to use such polite forms regularly, as is done in other languages too. But the longer you are with someone naturally these things tend to slip. Khrup and Ka are still used between long-term couples though, particularly in front of children (setting a good example of being polite), and in public to show courtesy to each other. Some women I know use ka all the time, with their partner and their family members. You may sometimes here that couples swap the words too, so the woman uses khrup and the man says ka. This is a jokey, sort of cute interaction. You may also hear “ja” commonly used between couples, as this can be used as a more intimate form of khrup/ka.

      Also consider that Khrup and ka are also used to indicate understanding of something, like the word “yes”. Even though the word for yes is “chai”, Thais will use khrup and ka to acknowledge understanding of a statement/during conversation. So it isn’t just limited to being a polite ending to a sentence.

      My advice is to get used to using khrup as much as possible. It is never wrong to use it, so don’t worry about that. But over time you will get a feel for when the context is right to use it and when you can relax from using it — usually with friends and your partner. Always use it with your GFs parents and grandparents.

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  4. I have 2 sentences. How to say:
    good morning my beautiful and sweet lady in thai language?

    And,

    It is a short time we met. I hope we can meet again someday in future. Have a nice trip back to Thailand.

    Khopkun krap.

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  5. how i say “i promise” in thai ?
    and how say “you are my one and only”
    and “you will never know how much you mean to me”

    i have really strong feelings for this person and i am going thailand in october , i just wanted to learn a few things to show that i care and im trying and she doesnt need to worry

    khop khun

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    • hello Iain…. Promise in Thailand is Sunyah, you can say senyah.
      So i promise is Phom Sunyah for man, and Chun Sunyah for woman….
      you can learn Thai from they song or film
      I learn Thai from Song.

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    • Promise is “sanya” – คำมั่นสัญญา

      You are my one and only – คุณเพียงคนเดียว

      You will never know how much you mean to me – คุณไม่สามารถรู้ได้ว่าคุณมีความหมายกับฉันมากมายแค่ไหน

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  7. Hello and thanks for the simple yet very useful phrases.

    I been trying to put together a rejection sentence in the most polite way to a Thai guy who’s been acting too sweet around me at work and it is causing me a great deal of embarrassment. I simply want to tell him I am not interested in any kind of relationship at the moment.

    Thanks in advance
    Mae

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    • How are you saying it? In a nice way, or in an angry way, Like “Hey, look at me”. Or “Look at me!!!”

      The normal way is: มองดูผม – Mhong du phom (for a man)

      If you were being angry or rude: ดูผมสิ – Du phom see! (for a man)

      Replace phom with chan for a woman speaker.

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  10. How do i make mends with this thai boy? He swear to buddha..that he will not talk to me..because we had a misunderstandings..pls help me…its getting painful…

    His message earlier

    But not anymore. I already swear to buddha alan. I dont want to break my promise. I just went out to say Im not mad. But now, its done.

    good bye.

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  12. Are any of these sentences wrong? Because I’ve been using them for a couple of days now.

    Your smile is beautiful YIM KHUN SUEAY
    Take care of yourself DO LAIR DTOA ANG
    Your eyes are beautiful DTAR KONG KHUN SUEAY
    You are really beautiful KHUN SUEAY JING JING
    I miss you CHUN KIT TEUNG KHUN
    I love you POM RUK KHUN
    You are handsome KHUN ROOP LAW
    Go to eat together BY GIN DOAY GUN

    Also, if the speaker is male ‘pom’ is used, and if the speaker is female ‘chun’ is used right?

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    • Pretty much, yes. But when transliterated, the sounds of the words are probably more like this:

      Your smile is beautiful – YIM KHUN SUWAAY
      Take care of yourself – DUU LAIR DTUA ENG
      Your eyes are beautiful- DTAR KONG KHUN SUWAAY
      You are really beautifuL- KHUN SUWAAY JING JING
      I miss you – CHAN KIT TEUNG KHUN
      I love you – PHOM RAK KHUN
      You are handsome – KHUN ROOP LAW
      Go to eat together – PAI (BPAI) GIN (GHIN) DUAY GAAN

      Correct to the final question too.

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        • There are some standards that have appeared over the years, simply because they have been repeatedly written. But as you’ll see all over Thailand, things are spelt differently in varying places, documents, etc. The government do have a standard for spelling for provinces and areas though. I found this out recently when speaking with a translation company. They have a big book of all the spellings given to them for when translating official documents.

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  22. To whoever wrote this website

    i owe you a debt of gratitude..without this site i would have never had a chance with a thai girl…this website helped me to speak romantically to this girl… thanks dude! i owe you one.

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  25. Lovely article, thank you!

    I’ve got this following comment on my photo from a girl:
    “X เเเ. ตช[name of another person who praised my photo] ดเ. ปะะเ”
    Do you have any idea what it means? And does the letter X at the beginning means ‘kiss’ like in English too?
    I tried google translate and other tools, dictionaries but still couldn’t understand what she means. Some characters are even “not found”.

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  28. I think I’m the first girl on this website to find this video useful 🙂 I’ll be woo’ing my Thai BF with these tonight!

    Thanks for all your vids. I’m finding learning Thai pretty tough going but your lessons are definitely helping. Would be useful to do some alphabet stuff at some point if you can? Ta.

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    • Hi Nicholas. This means “I love you”, but in a slightly different way to the standard “Chan/phom rak khun”.

      Usually “khao” refers to the third person, like “he” or “she”. But if a person says “I love you” in this way they are implying (using the third person expression) that they still love you. The “duaeng” refers to you, in an affectionate way.

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  32. This is stupid, if u want to make it in any way useful u need to include the Thai language for it, ffs. Transliteration doesn’t work so good. Believe it or not some foreigners can read it, and Thais certainly can’t read pom rook koon (as it is better transliterated) either. U are only making farangs look like fools.

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    • Well, considering that phonetic translation is how they teach Thai at Thai language learning schools to foreigners who don’t yet know the alphabet, I don’t see it as stupid. Sure, it won’t be exactly the correct pronunciation, but it’s a good place to start, and Thai people will be more than happy to help you get the correct tone and pronunciation. By the way, that would be Phom rak khun. Thank you for your input.

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        • Hmmm, conventional ones might include:

          หวานใจ /wǎan jai – sweetheart
          ทูนหัว /tuun hǔa – dearest, beloved
          ที่รัก /tîi rák – dear, darling, love
          สุดที่รัก /sùt tîi rák – dearest love
          ตัวเอง / Dtua-eng – my baby (literally means ‘own’, as if he/she belongs to you)

          Thais tend to use looks to create silly but cute terms of endearment; like Moo Noi (small pig if someone is a tad chubby), or maa noi (little dog/puppy). I’ve heard all sorts! Hope this helps…

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  34. Paiboon’s ThaiDict Android/iphone apps. I found that it is very helpful. It is on target 85-90% of the time. And each word has a native thai pronunciation. I do like their paiboon+ romanization guide. They really do a good job of trying to pronounce the words properly and make it foreigner-friendly to see the differences in pronunciations. Very difficult to do with just a regular english keypad.

    They plan on coming out with a separate dictionary for slang/common thai phrases with native pronunciation, and they will incorporate them into the main dictionaries at no extra charge.

    I keep wanting a hand-held guide that will have a few variations of “How old are you?” “What is your name?”, “Are you available later this evening for…”

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