Translation please - จร้า

[Ru4Real]

Hi folks, can anyone translate จร้า for me please.

Online not helping much:

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[yugot]

Try a different website: thai2english.com

จร้า

jà-ráa

(particle used at the end of sentences to make them sound more friendly or polite)

[wolfy]

Checked a different website and they translated as "much"

[Ru4Real]

Thanks gents, yugot, sorry, missed your reply until wolfy just replied.

Still not making much sense really, was an answer to someone asking if a picture was a friends parents (although I have heard people just saying ka or khrap to answer yes so perhaps yugot is more correct). Tried a few other online translation sites ... and gave up 555

[slick67]

Well, you were right, it is used to answer “yes” just like krap or ka.

It’s just more informal and sounds more friendly. It’s mostly used with friends and family and women seem to use it more often than men.

I’ve only heard จร้า pronounced as jâa though, never as ja-râa like in the link from yugot. But I guess it’s possible...

 

You often hear it when girls are talking on the phone with a friend, they just go: ja, ja, ja, ja = yes, yes, yes... 

[Ru4Real]

Thanks for the reply, and basically confirming what I had thought from the start ... just wish it was easier to find definitive translations 

[Douchebag]

3 hours ago, slick67 said:

Well, you were right, it is used to answer “yes” just like krap or ka.

It’s just more informal and sounds more friendly. It’s mostly used with friends and family and women seem to use it more often than men.

I’ve only heard จร้า pronounced as jâa though, never as ja-râa like in the link from yugot. But I guess it’s possible...

 

You often hear it when girls are talking on the phone with a friend, they just go: ja, ja, ja, ja = yes, yes, yes... 

It is pronounced jâa as you say. 

JR (จร) is a consonant cluster and combines as J. The R does neither produce an R, L or N sound, but is silent. You also have the cluster in jing lor, written JRING LOR.

จร้า is one of several spelling variants. If I understand it correctly, the different spellings gives minor change in pronunciation and thereby also in expression/feeling.