Jingjok
How to say please turn on the meter
in Thai
เปิดมิเตอร์ด้วย
bpòet mí-dtôoe dûai
please turn on the meter
Add ครับ (kráp) if you are a man or ค่ะ (kâ) if you are a woman. It makes the sentence polite, and Thais always use it.
ด้วย at the end makes it a gentle request. If the driver names a flat price instead, just say ไม่เป็นไร and get out.
- Where
- taxi
- Register
- polite
The culture behind it
CULTURE
The taxi "ไปไหม" ritual
Words inside it
From the same situation: Getting around
- รถcar, vehicle
- แท็กซี่taxi
- มิเตอร์taxi meter
- เปิดมิเตอร์turn on the meter
- ค่ารถfare
- ถึงto arrive, to get to
- ตรงไปgo straight on
- เลี้ยวto turn
All 61 words and phrases in “Getting around” →
Your first 90 days of Thai
Jingjok drills เปิดมิเตอร์ด้วย until you can say it without thinking, then shows you where to use it today. Take a taxi, Grab, motorbike taxi or the skytrain, and tell the driver exactly where to go and stop.
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