แชร์

Explanation

The word comes from English “share” and is widely used in everyday conversation, social media, and workplace discussions. The object helps identify the meaning: แชร์โพสต์ means sharing a post, แชร์ประสบการณ์ means sharing an experience, and แชร์ค่ารถ means splitting transport costs. Use แชร์ + something + กับ + someone to specify who you share with. Adding กัน indicates doing it together. As a noun, แชร์ refers to a rotating savings and credit arrangement. Members contribute regularly, and the recipient of each pooled payout is determined by the group's rules, sometimes through bidding. เล่นแชร์ means participating in this arrangement.

Usage

Use it when sharing posts or links, sharing your screen or experiences at work, or splitting meal and travel expenses with friends. The noun appears in conversations about joining or running rotating savings groups.

Caution

แชร์ does not cover every meaning of English “share.” A share in a company is หุ้น, and market share is ส่วนแบ่งตลาด. To explicitly split a cost equally, use หารเท่ากัน. If everyone pays for their own purchases, use ต่างคนต่างจ่าย. The financial noun แชร์ does not inherently mean fraud. A scheme that uses new investors' money to pay earlier investors is generally called แชร์ลูกโซ่.

1 share (content, information, or resources) synonyms

• แบ่งปัน

  แบ่งปัน means sharing things or knowledge and works well in more formal writing. แชร์ is common in conversation and at work, and also names the action of sharing a social media post.

• ใช้ร่วมกัน

  ใช้ร่วมกัน specifically means using something jointly. แชร์ can express this too, but also covers passing on information and sharing posts.

2 split the cost synonyms

• หาร

  hǎan split (a bill or shared expense)

  หาร means dividing mathematically and, when discussing a bill, suggests calculating each person's share. แชร์ focuses on sharing the expense without necessarily specifying equal amounts.