How to Say “Take care” in Thai
ดูแลตัวเองด้วย
duu-lææ tua-eeng dûay
Take care
literally: Take care of yourself
นะ (ná) turns this into a gentle request rather than an order — and after นะ (ná), women say คะ (khá) (high tone), not the plain ค่ะ (khâ).
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When to use it
This phrase uses the นะ (ná) particle at the end, before the polite particles ครับ/คะ (khráp/khá). The particle นะ (ná) shows that a sentence is a request or a gentle command. So, when you say ดูแลตัวเองด้วย (duu-lææ tua-eeng dûay) — Take care of yourself — adding นะ (ná) at the end tells the listener that you are asking them to do something out of care. It stops the sentence from sounding like a bossy order and turns it into a warm request.
Why you've seen it spelled differently
You may have seen ดูแลตัวเองด้วย written as: doo lae tua eng duay, du lae tua eng.
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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