How to Say “It's raining” in Thai
ฝนตก
fǒn tòk
It's raining
ค่ะ (khâ) and ครับ (khráp) are polite particles — they depend on the speaker's gender, not the listener's.
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When to use it
A simple weather statement — literally "rain falls." Useful for explaining a delay, canceling plans, bad signal, etc. ตก (tòk) means "to fall" more broadly and extends to other things too: พระอาทิตย์ตก (phrá-aa-thít tòk) — sunset, literally "the sun falls."
Why you've seen it spelled differently
You may have seen ฝนตก written as: fon tok, fon dtok, fohn tok.
There is no single standard for writing Thai in the Roman alphabet — phrasebooks, road signs, and tourist guides each follow a different system, and many just invent their own spellings. The romanization on this page uses a consistent IPA-based system that marks all five tones and distinguishes short from long vowels. The same word always gets the same spelling. Paste any Thai to see it romanized →
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