Chang Thai: Thai Elephant

Following from yesterday that we have just sung a song named "Chang". Today, I would like to discuss a little bit more about the word "Chang"

If you follow my post yesterday, you may know that "Chang" means an elephant or elephants. Thai words do not separate singular or plural. We use it as the same. Instead, we use numerative noun to identify how many "Chang" in order to specify whether it's singular or plural.

As you see my subject today heading "Chang Thai: Thai Elephant". You may notice that in Thai, we say it backward as of English word.

In English, you call it "Thai Elephant"

In Thai, we call it "Chang Thai"

This usually be the obstacle for both Thai and English speaker to learning each other's language because we speak it in an opposite way.

Another word I wanna point out today is "Tua". This is a numerative noun for calling elephants.

For example:-


One Elephant = Chang 1 tua



Three Elephants = Chang 3 tua


If it's too many elephants and you don't wanna count how many there are. You should use "Lhai" in stead of number. Let's see example:-


Many Elephants = Chang Lhai Tua

Hope you enjoy my post, I'll finish today with YouTube video of an elephant taking bath:-



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I'll add YouTube video to teach you to pronounce the word correctly later, stay tune....

Again, any comments or questions, please feel free to contact me.

Thank you very much.