Dictionary entry
ยัง
still
Meanings
every sense kept, sourced — never inventedstill; yetwiktionary
not yetwiktionary
also; too; as well; but alsocurated
to stay; remainwiktionary
Less common senses (6)
to be; have; exist; be alive; live; survivewiktionary
to; towardswiktionary
up to; until; throughwiktionary
to cause to stay or remain; maintain; retain; keep upwiktionary
to cause; make; bring about; result inwiktionary
alternative form of อย่าง, meaning style or mannerwiktionary
In the readings
real sentences, spoken by real voicesแต่ทำไมยังจำได้ว่า วันนี้เคยไปเชียงใหม่ด้วยกัน
But somehow I still remember that today is the day we went to Chiang Mai together.
แต่เพื่อนคนนี้ยังโพสต์รูปเขาอยู่เรื่อยๆ
But this friend still posts photos of him.
"แม่ เป็นจังได๋" (แม่ เป็นยังไงบ้าง)
"Mae, pen jang dai?" — Mom, how are you?
สิ่งเหล่านั้น ยังอยู่ในตัวผม
Those things are still inside me.
"กินข้าวแล้วบ่" (กินข้าวแล้วยัง)
"Kin khao laeo bo?" — Have you eaten yet?
Built from
From Proto-Tai *ɲaŋᴬ (“alive”) or Middle Chinese 仍 (MC nying, “still”). Cognate with Zhuang nyaengz (“alive; still”). Related to the "be, alive" sense of Etymology 1. Probably a semantic extension of the "be, alive" sense of Etymology 1. See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.