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How to say drinking water
in Thai
น้ำเปล่า
náam-bplào
drinking water · plain water
náam highbplào low
Plain drinking water, literally 'empty water'. In restaurants it usually comes as a bottle.
- Part of speech
- noun
- Classifier
- ขวด
- Literally
- empty water
- Remember it
- WATER with nothing in it: plain drinking water.
In a sentence
- น้ำเปล่าขวดหนึ่งnáam-bplào kùat nùenga bottle of water
- ขอน้ำเปล่าหน่อยkǎaw náam-bplào nòiSome plain water, please.
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