แต่แรก

from the beginning, in the first place

adverb Rare #9,161

from the beginning, in the first place

TH: ถ้าบอกกันแต่แรกก็คงไม่เกิดปัญหา

EN: If you had told me from the beginning, there probably wouldn't have been a problem.

Why didn't you tell me beforehand? We agreed on this from the start.

— จอมคนผงาดโลก (2006)

Then why didn’t you say so in the first place?

— เดอะ ลอร์ด ออฟ เดอะ ริงส์: ศึกหอคอยคู่กู้พิภพ (2002)

Anyone who's afraid of dying shouldn't have been born in the first place, got it?

— Tropa de Elite 2 (2010)

If you had cooperated with the police from the beginning, something like this probably wouldn't have happened.

— วิ่งสู้ฟัด (1985)

Maybe our lives would be better if we had never gotten married in the first place. I never said that.

— ซือเจ๊ทะลุมัลติเวิร์ส (2022)

If you’d agreed from the start, none of this would have happened.

— ฉลาดเกมส์โกง (2017)

The three of us will go, just as we discussed from the beginning.

— ฉลาดเกมส์โกง (2017)

phrase Rare #12,558

from the beginning Often used to mean “in the first place” when referring to something that should have happened or been done earlier.

TH: ถ้าบอกฉันแต่แรก ฉันก็คงช่วยได้

EN: If you had told me from the beginning, I could have helped.

I shouldn't have asked him to sing in the first place.

— A Taxi Driver (2017)

Because, one way or another, the world has been messed up from the start.

— ฤดูฝัน ฉันมีเธอ (2019)

If you guys were this good, they wouldn’t have died like this if you’d stepped up from the start.

— คนเล็กหมัดเทวดา (2004)

Our world has been messed up from the very beginning.

— ฤดูฝัน ฉันมีเธอ (2019)

Why didn’t you let me join in from the start, damn it?

— ไฟท์ คลับ ดิบดวลดิบ (1999)