Meanings
every sense kept, sourced — never inventedpart; section; portion; passage; paragraph; divisioncurated
time; point in time; occasionwiktionary
episode, as of a television serieswiktionary
when; during; at a point in timewiktionary
Less common senses (2)
to castratewiktionary
to graftwiktionary
In the readings
real sentences, spoken by real voicesตอนนี้ชีวิตของคนที่นี่ดีขึ้นมาก
Now life for people here is much better.
ตอนเด็กๆ พ่อพาผมไปดูครั้งหนึ่ง
When I was little, my dad took me there once.
ตอนนี้ ทำวันนี้ให้ดีก่อน
For now, I should focus on doing today well.
ตอนลูกพูดกับฉันว่า
When my child says to me,
เราไปโบสถ์ด้วยกันทุกอาทิตย์ตอนฉันยังเด็ก
We went to church together every Sunday when I was little.
Built from
From Proto-Tai *toːnᴬ (“to castrate”). Cognate with Lao ຕອນ (tǭn), Lü ᦎᦸᧃ (ṫoan), Shan တွၼ် (tǎun), Zhuang don. Compare Middle Chinese 驐 (MC twon). Cognate with Lao ຕອນ (tǭn). Borrowed from Old Chinese 段 (OC *doːns). Cognate with Lao ຕອນ (tǭn), Lü ᦎᦸᧃ (ṫoan), Zhuang donh.