Jingjok
How to say skytrain, metro
in Thai
รถไฟฟ้า
rót-fai-fáa
skytrain, metro
rót highfai midfáa high
Literally "electric train": covers the BTS skytrain and the MRT (รถไฟฟ้าใต้ดิน, underground). รถไฟ alone is a normal train.
- Part of speech
- noun
- Literally
- car-fire-sky: electric train
- Remember it
- CAR + FIRE + SKY: the train that flies over the city.
In a sentence
- ไปรถไฟฟ้าดีกว่าbpai rót-fai-fáa dii gwàaBetter to go by skytrain.
The culture behind it
CULTURE
Skytrain manners
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 teaches รถไฟฟ้า with audio, the tone drawn on screen, and a check on your own voice. Take a taxi, Grab, motorbike taxi or the skytrain, and tell the driver exactly where to go and stop.
- WEEKS 1–2 · SURVIVEGreet anyone, pay, and order food and 7-Eleven exactly how you like it.
- WEEKS 3–6 · SETTLE INGet around by taxi, Grab and skytrain, find anything, and handle your landlord.
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