Most common Thai words

man; male person

medicinal/protective herb (tuberous plant)

life (one’s life; way of living)

excrement; dung; feces; manure

thousand (1,000)

Buddhist monk

empty; blank; bare

normal; usual; ordinary

[to] estimate; approximate

most; -est (superlative)

goods; merchandise

grandmother (maternal)

tall; high (physical height)

song; musical piece

[to] cut

[!] aww; whining sound

pulley

deputy; vice-; second-in-command; assistant

from; since (starting point)

[to] go out; be extinguished

baht (Thai currency unit)

original; initial

slow

foreign; non-native

topic/contrast particle; question tag

teak

loud

a little; a bit (quantity)

in pairs; double

nighttime; night

Dharma; Buddhist teaching

deep pool in a river

[to] understand; grasp

[to] discuss; talk over

cause; reason

[to] translate

last; final

free; not busy

easy; simple

shy; embarrassed

shop; store

never; have never

thing; object; entity

galangal plant (Alpinia spp.)

[to] show; demonstrate

ready; prepared

to collect; pick up; gather

to come in; enter (toward the speaker)

listen

derogatory prefix before a woman's name/noun

sergeant (rank/title)

full; filled

even; increasingly; more

[to] sit; sit down

spray (of flowers); inflorescence

sure; okay; go ahead

time; period; at the time of (formal/lit.)

data (computing)

[to] be afraid; fear

and then; after that (sequence)

main; principal; primary

to believe [sth/sb]

omen; sign; portent

that (over there)

[to] replace; substitute for

everyone; everybody

country; nation; state

nation; country

pro; professional (person)

[to] rest; take a break

emphatic denial (actually not; certainly not)

[to] wait [for sb/sth] (Isan/Lao)

[!] hello; hi; goodbye

[to] call out; summon; hail

pure; unmixed; whole

[to] pay

young woman; girl

[to] baste; stitch roughly

rarely; seldom; not often

[to] agree; consent

[to] come back; return

the world; human society

one; single; unique; exceptional

leather

in; during; for [doing sth]; regarding

[to] stop; cease; quit

father; dad

[to] cry; weep

country; state (literary/archaic)

happiness; well-being

[to] call; phone

prefix/syllable in compounds

heavy (weight)

team; group

[to] film; shoot video

[to] be in time for

will; shall (literary/formal auxiliary)

tight; secure; firm

middle; center

[to] know; be aware (polite/formal)