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| เมนูอาหารที่สำคัญและขาดปลาร้าไม่ได้เลยคือ ส้มตำ maehM nuuM aaM haanR theeF samR khanM laeH khaatL bplaaM raaH maiF daiF leeuyM kheuuM sohmF dtamM |  |
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| Phonemic Thai | เม-นู-อา-หาน-ที่-สำ-คัน-และ-ขาด-ปฺลา-ร้า-ไม่-ได้-เลย-คือ-ซ่ม-ตำ |
| IPA | meː nuː ʔaː hǎːn tʰîː sǎm kʰan lɛ́ʔ kʰàːt plaː ráː mâj dâj lɤːj kʰɯː sôm tam |
| Royal Thai General System | menu ahan thi samkhan lae khat pla ra mai dai loei khue som tam |
| [example sentence] | |||
| definition | "The one important dish which cannot be made without fermented fish is papaya salad." | ||
| categories | |||
| components | เมนู | maehM nuuM | [Thai transcription of the foreign loanword] menu; menu item; dish |
 อาหาร  | aaM haanR | food; meal; diet | |
| ที่ | theeF | [the relative pronouns] that; which; which is... | |
| สำคัญ | samR khanM | [is] important; vital; essential, the main; necessary; required | |
| และ | laeH | and | |
| ขาด | khaatL | to lack; need | |
ปลาร้า | bplaaM raaH | fermented fish preserved with salt. Also called ปลาแดก | |
| ไม่ได้ | maiF daiF | [is] unable to; cannot | |
| เลย | leeuyM | [used for emphasis at the end of a statement] "...at all." — "...so much!" — "...extremely!; completely, directly; simply, without doing anything else first; right away | |
| คือ | kheuuM | [copula] to be; (conjunction used for equivalence definitions) | |
| ส้มตำ | sohmF dtamM | spicy green papaya salad, a specialty of northeastern Thailand. Isaan people call it ตำหมากหุ่ง and ตำบักหุ่ง | |
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