เป็นอะไร

bpen à-rai[ เป็น อะ-ไร ]
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You okay? เป็นอะไรไหม? — 'what's wrong?' To have a problem, be off.
  • Verb
    to have something wrong,have a problem
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    Although the literally meaning of เป็นอะไร is closer to "what are you?" it's frequently used as a phrase by itself to mean "What's wrong ?". To reply there's nothing wrong you can use ไม่เป็นอะไร (or the shortened form ไม่เป็นไร), though the literal meaning often invites sarcastic replies like เป็นคน ("I'm a person")..
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    เป็นbpen
    is,to be
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    อะไรà-rai
    what
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