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Originally Posted by alibaba
If you do then maybe you can answer my query.
The expression "krap" usually pronounced "kup".
I usually know when it's use is appropriate and know it's sometimes polite to add it on at the end of a spoken sentence, but I would like to know it's literal meaning. Can anyone help?
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It is nothing more than a 'polite particle' and should always be used in everyday situations when speaking with thai's you don't know.
Like a shop, bank etc..
There are always different spellings in romanised form for all the thai words but the most common I have found in several thai language books is
Krup - male
Ka - female
And yes, some thai's do drop the 'r' in krup.