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"can; to be able to" in Thai

ได้
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Summary

The Thai translation for “can; to be able to” is ได้.

Pronounced the same

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to get; to receive ได้
thread ด้าย

See also

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can; tin can กระป๋อง
under ใต้

Examples of "can; to be able to" in use

There are 609 examples of the Thai word for "can; to be able to" being used:
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I can. (male polite form) ได้ครับ
to be possible เป็นไปได้
That’s right. She didn’t go. (male speaker) ครับไม่ได้ไป
I can do it. (female speaker) ฉันทำได้
I can go with you. ผมไปกับคุณได้
Can I go with you? (female speaker) ฉันไปกับคุณได้ไหม
I can’t go with you. (female speaker) ฉันไปกับคุณไม่ได้
I can’t just stay here. ผมอยู่ที่นี่ไม่ได้
She is not here. เธอไม่ได้อยู่ที่นี่
Tom isn’t here. ทอมไม่ได้อยู่ที่นี่

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"can; to be able to" Practice (606)
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Lesson words
can; to be able to,
to be impossible,
to be possible
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Lesson phrases
A dog can see in the dark.,
a foldable bicycle,
A lizard is capable of changing colour.,
A penguin can swim very well.,
A penguin is a bird that is not able to fly.,
A very good employee is not at all easy to find.,
A woman can be a boxer,
After he had an accident, he could not work anymore.,
And she wrote a card.,
And the story of the ferry and also the story about driving at night and also staying in a tent.,
And then there were small bits of glass in the water which could cut my feet. I walked around and tried to avoid stepping on them.,
And we had to wait for the people who were staying at the bungalow to leave early in the morning and then we could go to stay in that bungalow.,
Ann answered ‘yes, so my monkey will have a friend’. (female polite form),
Another problem after we got to the hotel was that we couldn’t drive the car into the beach because there were a lot of people and there was no parking for us.,
Any child can do that.,
Anyone can do it?,
Are you already allowed to drink alcohol?,
Are you already allowed to drive?,
Are you already allowed to travel abroad alone?,
Are you sure we can do that?
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