ผัก
vegetable
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- 1 vegetable、vegetables; greens
A basic everyday word for vegetables as food, used when talking about cooking, shopping, and healthy eating.
vegetable、vegetables; greens
Refers collectively to plants or plant parts eaten as vegetables.
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ใส่ผักเยอะ ๆ sày phàk yə́ yə́ Add plenty of vegetables. ใส่ผักเยอะ ๆ details
Learning notes
Explanation
ผัก often refers to vegetables collectively rather than to one particular item. กินผัก means “eat vegetables,” and ซื้อผัก means “buy vegetables.” The noun itself does not change for the plural. It also appears in many established names for vegetables and herbs, such as ผักชี “cilantro” and ผักบุ้ง “water spinach.” These names are best learned as complete words. The classifier or unit depends on what is being counted: ชนิด for kinds, ต้น for individual plants, and กำ for bunches. In everyday speech, quantity is also commonly expressed without counting, as in ผักเยอะ ๆ, “lots of vegetables.”
Usage
Common in markets and supermarkets, cooking and restaurant orders, gardening, and conversations about diet or health. Frequent combinations include กินผัก “eat vegetables,” ล้างผัก “wash vegetables,” หั่นผัก “cut vegetables,” and ปลูกผัก “grow vegetables.”
Caution
ผัก refers to edible vegetables, not plants in general; the broader word for a plant is พืช. Mushrooms may be grouped with vegetables in cooking, but they are normally called เห็ด rather than ผัก.
Differences from similar words
1 vegetable synonyms
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พืช means plants in general, whether or not they are edible. ผัก specifically refers to plants eaten and treated as vegetables.