ใช่ปะ = Right?
ใช่ปะ = Right?
Advanced Thai course: Understanding authentic Thai content - Youtube videos, News, TV Program, Clips
Section 1 Intro 🔽 🔽 🔽
Section 1 Intro 🔽 🔽 🔽
(Section 1) Important and common Thai particles #1 - ปะ
(Section 1) Important and common Thai particles #1 - ปะ
(Section 1) Important and common Thai particles #2 - เนอะ
(Section 1) Important and common Thai particles #2 - เนอะ
(Section 1) Important and common Thai particles #3 - นะ
(Section 1) Important and common Thai particles #3 - นะ
(Section 1) Important and common Thai particles #4 - ดิ
(Section 1) Important and common Thai particles #4 - ดิ
(Section 1) Important and common Thai particles #5 - ไง
(Section 1) Important and common Thai particles #5 - ไง
Section 2 Intro 🔽 🔽 🔽
Section 2 Intro 🔽 🔽 🔽
(Section 2) Native level words and expressions #1 - เอา
(Section 2) Native level words and expressions #1 - เอา
(Section 2) Native level words and expressions #2 - พวก
(Section 2) Native level words and expressions #2 - พวก
(Section 2) Native level words and expressions #3 - จะ
(Section 2) Native level words and expressions #3 - จะ
(Section 2) Native level words and expressions #4 - เดี๋ยว
(Section 2) Native level words and expressions #4 - เดี๋ยว
(Section 2) Native level words and expressions #5 - ว่า
(Section 2) Native level words and expressions #5 - ว่า
(Section 2) Native level words and expressions #6 - ที่
(Section 2) Native level words and expressions #6 - ที่
(Section 2) Native level words and expressions #7 - ก็
(Section 2) Native level words and expressions #7 - ก็
(Section 2) Native level words and expressions #8 - ให้
(Section 2) Native level words and expressions #8 - ให้
(Section 2) Native level words and expressions #9 -นึก
(Section 2) Native level words and expressions #9 -นึก
Section 3-10 Intro 🔽 🔽 🔽
Section 3-10 Intro 🔽 🔽 🔽
(Section 3) Understanding Youtube videos: 🌭 Why did the kids almost die from eating a sausage?
(Section 3) Understanding Youtube videos: 🌭 Why did the kids almost die from eating a sausage?
(Section 3.2) Understanding Youtube videos: 🌭 Why did the kids almost die from eating a sausage?
(Section 3.2) Understanding Youtube videos: 🌭 Why did the kids almost die from eating a sausage?
(Section 4) Understanding Unscripted talks: 🥘 Eating culture, and how Thais view feet and sitting with back bent
(Section 4) Understanding Unscripted talks: 🥘 Eating culture, and how Thais view feet and sitting with back bent
(Section 4.2) Understanding Unscripted talk: 🥘 Eating culture, and how Thais view feet and sitting with back bent
(Section 4.2) Understanding Unscripted talk: 🥘 Eating culture, and how Thais view feet and sitting with back bent
(Section 5) Understanding Thai news video: 🥊 Thai kid punches female teacher!
(Section 5) Understanding Thai news video: 🥊 Thai kid punches female teacher!
(Section 6) Understanding REAL phone conversation/gossip: 📞 What I think about my parents-in-law.
(Section 6) Understanding REAL phone conversation/gossip: 📞 What I think about my parents-in-law.
(Section 6.2) Understanding REAL phone conversation/gossip: 📞 What I think Thai government
(Section 6.2) Understanding REAL phone conversation/gossip: 📞 What I think Thai government
(Section 7) Understanding Youtube videos: 🇹🇭 What was the language of Buddha? - Focus on BUDDHA
(Section 7) Understanding Youtube videos: 🇹🇭 What was the language of Buddha? - Focus on BUDDHA
(Section 7.2) Understanding Youtube videos: 🇹🇭 What was the language of Buddha? - Focus on INDIA
(Section 7.2) Understanding Youtube videos: 🇹🇭 What was the language of Buddha? - Focus on INDIA
(Section 8.1) Understand Tiktok short clips: The concept of เกรงใจ
(Section 8.1) Understand Tiktok short clips: The concept of เกรงใจ
(Section 8.2) Understand Tiktok short clips: The concept of กตัญญู
(Section 8.2) Understand Tiktok short clips: The concept of กตัญญู
(Section 9) Understanding commercial video: ⚽ How to watch the Premier League with your AIS subscription
(Section 9) Understanding commercial video: ⚽ How to watch the Premier League with your AIS subscription
(Section 10) Understanding Thai TV show: 🎤 Blind Auditions - The Voice Thailand 2019
(Section 10) Understanding Thai TV show: 🎤 Blind Auditions - The Voice Thailand 2019
Thank you! + Where to go from here?
Thank you! + Where to go from here?
ใช่ปะ is a casual spoken particle meaning “right?”. Sometimes you can think of it as “you know?”. But the word that is closer to "you know?" is เนอะ which I will explain in the เนอะ section (next section).
ใช่ปะ can be used in real questions. For example:
มีเงินใช่ปะ = You have money right?
ไม่เป็นไรใช่ปะ = You are fine right?
However, very often when ใช่ปะ is used, the speaker already assumes that the listener agrees.
It’s commonly used in casual conversation, especially when explaining ideas or recounting events. It helps keep the speech flowing naturally rather than to ask for an actual response.
Personal Insight:
🗣️ I try to pay attention to myself when I say ใช่ปะ and I notice that EVERY TIME I say this word, I pronounce it as ชปะ (ch-bpa) instead of (ใช่ปะ) chai bpa. I would call it colloquial/fast pronunciation.
Pay attention to how people in the video pronounce ใช่ปะ - it will sound closer to ชปะ (ch-bpa)
Vocabulary you might not know:
ใยแมงมุม = spider web 🕸️
พวกนี้ = these things
The following video has many clips of the particle being used in real videos.
❗DON'T try to understand all the words and sentences and don't try to memorize every new vocabulary from all the example sentences.
❗JUST understand what the particles mean and how they are used, then MOVE ON.
Sentences from the video:
ถ้าเราหาความสนุกนั้นไม่เจอใช่ป่ะ ...
→ If we can’t find that enjoyment, right? ...
วันอาทิตย์ใช่ปะ ทำอะไร กินเหล้า กินเลี้ยง กินอะไรต่างๆ
→ On Sundays, you know, what do you do? Drink alcohol, partying, eating all kinds of things.
เว็บแปลว่าใยแมงมุมใช่ปะ
→ "Web" means “spider web,” right?
แล้วพวกนี้คือเรื่องที่เกิดขึ้นจริงใช่ปะ
→ And these things are issues that actually happen, right?
เราทุกคนอะมีเวลา 24 ชั่วโมงใช่ปะ
→ All of us have 24 hours, right?
พอเราเข้าไปในกรุ๊ปไลน์ใช่ปะ...
→ When we go into a LINE group, right?…
อันนี้มันเบสิคไปใช่ปะ
→ This is too basic, right?