Meanings
every sense kept, sourced — never inventedat; to; on; within; amidst, indicating a locationwiktionary
that; which; who; whom; that whichwiktionary
where; whenwiktionary
land; place; area; seat; site; locationwiktionary
position; officewiktionary
for; during; at the time ofwiktionary
used with cardinal numbers to form ordinal numberscurated
used to indicate comparisons or orderingwiktionary
the person whowiktionary
an object pertaining to something; an object or equipment for a particular purposewiktionary
a concept or idea pertaining to somethingwiktionary
a place or location pertaining to something; a place to do somethingwiktionary
an event, time, duration, or occurrence pertaining to somethingwiktionary
placed after an adjective to indicate that it applies particularly and specifically to the preceding nounwiktionary
used in the pattern เป็น + ที่ + verb to form an adjective from a verbwiktionary
classifier for places, locations, and servingswiktionary
Less common senses (1)
as inlexitron
In the readings
real sentences, spoken by real voicesที่บ้านตอนนี้คงเงียบและเย็นสบาย
Home must be quiet and cool right now.
เขาพูดภาษาไทยได้ แต่ที่บ้านพูดภาษามอญ
He can speak Thai, but at home they speak Mon.
แต่อุทัยธานี คือที่ที่ทำให้ผมเป็นผมในวันนี้
But Uthai Thani is the place that made me who I am today.
ฉันไม่ใช่ผู้หญิงที่น่าสงสาร
I'm not a woman to be pitied.
กลางคืนที่พัทยาไม่เคยเงียบเลย
The night in Pattaya is never quiet.
Built from
From Proto-Tai *diːᴮ, possibly from Middle Chinese 地 (MC dijH). Cognate with Lao ທີ່ (thī), Northern Thai ᨴᩦ᩵, Lü ᦑᦲᧈ (tii¹), Tai Dam ꪕꪲ꪿, Tai Dón ꪕꪲꫀ, Shan တီႈ (tīi), Tai Nüa ᥖᥤ (ti), Phake တ︀ီ (tī), Ahom 𑜄𑜣 (tī), Zhuang deih, Zuojiang Zhuang thi. Outside Tai-Kadai: compare Proto-Mon-Khmer *tiʔ ~ tiiʔ ~ tiəʔ (“that yonder”), Mon တေံ (teʔ, “that”), Khmer ទី (tii), Vietnamese thì (“then, which, to be”). Compare Malay di.