Thai is written without spaces between words. For a beginner, this is the primary difficulty—not the meanings of the words, but where one ends and the next begins. The Morphology page exists exactly for this purpose.
How to Use
Paste the Thai text into the field and click Analyze. The phrase will be broken down into cards—one for each word.
You can get here in three ways:
- directly from the Morphology page;
- automatically—if you searched for a Thai phrase and nothing was found, the analysis will appear instead of an empty result; → Search Guide
- via the ⊞ icon next to any example in a dictionary entry. → Entry Page Guide
If you don't know where to start, there is a Random dictionary sentence examples panel at the bottom of the page. Clicking any of them will insert it into the field.
What is Displayed
At the top is the entire phrase: an audio button, romanization in Latin and Cyrillic scripts. → Romanization and Tones
Below are the word cards. A found word includes:
- an 🔊 button—to listen to that specific word (login required);
- the Thai spelling, clickable—leads to the dictionary entry;
- Latin and IPA transcription;
- entry type;
- meaning in Russian and English.
A card for a word not in the dictionary appears faded and is labeled not in dictionary; a search → link is provided next to it. A piece of text that is not Thai (numbers, Latin script) is labeled not Thai.
How the Segmentation Works
Without AI and without network requests: the program selects a segmentation where the fewest letters remain unidentified, and in case of a tie, it prefers longer words.
Two practical conclusions follow from this:
Analysis is limited by our dictionary. If we don't have the word, it won't be found, even if it is perfectly common. In that case, the phrase will be broken down worse than it could be—neighboring words around the gap may also be segmented incorrectly.
Long words win over short ones. Usually, this is correct, but not always: two short words in a row sometimes combine to form the spelling of a long word, and the analysis will choose the long one. If the result seems strange, try analyzing the phrase in parts.
This is not an error, but a compromise: the segmentation is done instantly and costs nothing.
AI Phrase Analysis
Below the cards, if you are logged in, there is a ✦ AI Morphological Analysis button. It sends the entire phrase to a language model, which provides what mechanical segmentation cannot:
| Section | What's in it |
|---|---|
| Translation | a natural translation of the phrase |
| Literal | a word-for-word translation—showing how the phrase is structured internally |
| Notes | grammatical explanations: particles, word order, politeness |
| Components | each unit with its part of speech and role in the sentence |
The analysis takes up to a minute. For the Russian interface, it will arrive in Russian; for the English interface, in English.
Limit
AI phrase analyses are limited: 10 per day for a regular user (editors and administrators have more). The counter resets at midnight UTC.
Important detail: repeated analyses are free. The result is saved, and if someone has already analyzed this exact phrase, the answer will come from the cache with a from cache label, and the limit will not be consumed. So, don't be afraid to open the same example twice.
Unknown Words
If the AI sees words in the phrase that are not in our dictionary, it will mark them, and a line like "Unknown words sent to moderators for review: 2" will appear at the bottom.
This is not just a formality: such words enter a queue, and editors decide whether to add them to the dictionary. By analyzing phrases, you are gradually expanding the dictionary for everyone.
When to Use What
| Situation | What to do |
|---|---|
| I don't understand where the word boundaries are | Mechanical analysis—instant and without limits |
| Words are clear, but the phrase is not | AI analysis: look at "Literal" and "Notes" |
| One word is unclear | Open its card and read the entry |
| The required word is not in the dictionary | Order an AI analysis of the word separately |
Practical tip: start with mechanical analysis—it's free and often sufficient. Use the AI when all the words are understood individually, but the meaning still doesn't add up. Usually, it's a matter of a particle or word order, which is exactly what is covered in the "Notes."
Next Steps
- Entry Page Guide — where the word cards lead
- AI Word Analysis — analysis of a single word, not a phrase
- Search Guide — analysis as a backup search option
- Romanization and Tones