Now that we got all of the difficult phonics out of the way, we can finally learn the days of the week. Did you know that Thai people have a color for each day of the week? It's great for lazy people like myself to decide what to wear to have the highest possible chance of matching my outfit with a random aunty at the park. Slay~
Not only that, once you know all of these words, just take วัน(day) out, replace it with ดาว(for planets) or พระ/ดวง(for moon or stars) and you'll know all of the solar system in Thai. Anything that is not in the days of the week or Earth is just the same as in English.
word
meaning
pronunciation
What is it in the Solar system?
วันจันทร์
Monday (Yellow)
The moon
วันอังคาร
Tuesday (Pink)
Mars
วันพุธ
Wednesday (Green)
Mercury
วันพฤหัส
Thursday (Orange)
Jupiter
วันศุกร์
Friday (Blue)
Venus
วันเสาร์
Saturday (Purple)
Saturn
วันอาทิตย์
Sunday (Red)
The sun
For Thursday, I just gave you the shortened version that people will actually say. I already gave you the full version in Lesson 32. In the pronunciation of the sun and the moon, I would want to focus on using พระ first. ดวง is more formal, scientific/poetic than you would need in a regular conversation.
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Practice
Try out this practice to see if you identify the words covered in this lesson