เกิน
exceed
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- 1 exceed、go beyond、surpass
เกิน expresses going beyond a number, limit, expectation, or appropriate degree. After an action or quality, it means “too” or “excessively.”
exceed、go beyond、surpass
Expresses exceeding a stated number, capacity, limit, or other standard.
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ห้ามเกิน 100 บาท hâam kəən rɔ́ɔy bàat It must not exceed 100 baht. ห้ามเกิน 100 บาท details
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เขาอายุเกิน 60 ปีแล้ว khǎw aayú kəən hòksìp pii lɛ́ɛw He is already over 60. เขาอายุเกิน 60 ปีแล้ว details
Learning notes
Explanation
The core idea is crossing a boundary or standard. That standard may be a number such as a price, age, or length of time, or something abstract such as ability, necessity, expectations, or truth. When the standard follows เกิน, it forms expressions such as เกินงบ “exceed the budget.” After a quality or action, especially in the pattern “quality/action + เกินไป,” it means “too” or “excessively.”
Usage
It is common when discussing limits involving budgets, ages, time, numbers of people, or weight. It is also frequent in everyday judgments that something is excessive, as in แพงเกินไป “too expensive” or ทำงานมากเกินไป “work too much.”
Caution
For “too,” place เกินไป after the quality or action, as in แพงเกินไป. A standard being exceeded instead follows เกิน. Also, ไม่เกิน 100 บาท means “no more than 100 baht” and includes exactly 100, while เกิน 20 ปี strictly means “more than 20 years” and excludes exactly 20.
Differences from similar words
1 exceed synonyms
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เลย focuses on passing a place or point in time. เกิน more broadly means exceeding a number, limit, capacity, or standard.