How to wish a happy new year in Thai ?

Well the year is almost over and in a few hours 2015 will come. For those who are in Thailand for the year-end holidays and who would like to know how to wish a happy new year in Thai language, here are a few key sentences.

We bagin with two ways to say “Happy New Year!” then a few other thai sentences that will be useful today and tomorrow:

• Sawasdee pee maï  which means Happy New Year
• Suk san wan pee maï  which also means Happy New Year (literally happy day of the new year)
• For the countdown : 5,4,3,2,1 is haa (5), sii (4), sam (3), song (2) nueng (1)
  So it will be: haa, sii, sam, song, neung… Sawasdee pee maï !
• Kho haï mee kwam suk to wish a lot of happiness

To punctuate with kha if you are a woman and  khrap if you are a man.

And now a video to remember and pronounce well the sentence of the day “Sawasdee Pee Mai!”

Now you are ready to wish a happy new year in Thai !

Sawasdee Pee May khrap! Kho hai mee kwam  suk mak mak na krap!
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And see you in 2015 for new adventures !