Hi listeners, in your country, do you offer items for daily use, food or money to monks or priests? 

Hello Meera,

Thank you. Let me answer your question by using our sentence examples:

Question: tham à-rai gan yùu rǒoe khráp , bpai gin-khâao gan mái(shell we go eat?), bpai duu-nǎng gan mái(shell we go watch movie?)

Statement: tham à-rai gan yùu(or tham à-rai gan), bpai duu-nǎng gan(let's watch movie), bpai gin-khâao gan (let's eat) Hope that helps. Please feel free to let me know if you have any future questions. I will be glad to help.

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Where to place ' gun' in the plural sentence

Hi Guido,

Thank you. There is different between ทำอะไรอยู่ (tham à-rai yùu). What are you doing? Asking one person directly. ทำอะไรกันอยู่ (tham à-rai gan yùu). What are they doing? it refers to more than one person, ask about two people or more and as a group. 👍gan กัน means together so, more than one person can do thing together. Hope that helps. Please feel free to let me know if you have any future questions. I will be glad to help.

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That would give you ทำอะไรอยู่ (tham à-rai gan yùu). I suggest to delete the gan in the translation.

Hello Steven Chen,

Thank you. Yes, you could either put "tham-mai" at the beginning or the end of a sentence. We will specifically add it in front if we want to softly ask for a reason. Hope that helps. Please let me know if you have any future questions. I will be glad to help.

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Hello Khun Parisa

Above it says 'why do they pray' as 'phûuak-khǎo sùuat-mon gan tham-mai'. Can I also put 'tham-mai' at the beginning of the sentence?

I've remembered learn it before that 'why are you late' is 'tham-mai khun maa sai'.

Cheers

Hello Drich,

Thank you. กัน in the sentence could means "together" it's show more than one people are doing thing together. เขา in the sentence is a short version of พวกเขา which means "they/them". Hope that's help. Please let me know if you have any future questions. I will be glad to help.

Have a good day.

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สวัสดีครับ

In the sentence "ตรงนั้นเขาทำอะไรกันอยู่เหรอครับ",

why is กัน used when the subject is singular เขา(he/she)? Shouldn't it be "ตรงนั้นเขาทำอะไรอยู่เหรอครับ" or make it "ตรงนั้นพวกเขาทำอะไรกันอยู่เหรอครับ"

ขอบคุนครับ

Hello Adlan,

Thank you very much for your comment and question. In this case " gâaw" is a linking particle. For grammar explanation, please kindly contact our Premium PLUS teacher. Please let me know if you have any future questions about Thai language. I will be glad to help. We wish you will have a good progress with Thai.

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Parisa

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Hi,

dtàae lá khon khǎo gâaw mii hèet-phǒn thîi dtàaek-dtàang gan àawk bpai khâ.

Regarding this sentence, I cannot understand the usage of gâaw. I don't think the meaning 'also' is applicable as she wasn't really stating more than 1 reasons. I've watched one other video and from there it was explained that gâaw can also carry the meaning of 'cause'. If that is the case why isn't it used at the start of the sentence?

Hello Todd,

Thanks again for your comment. For your question, khǎawng means "thing" in Thai and chái means "to use so "khǎawng-chái" is "something to use. Hope that helps. Please let us know if you have any future questions.

Have a nice day.

Parisa

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Don't really have such a ceremony, other than the weekly offering at church.

In the sentence, "khǎawng nai thǎng sǐi-lǔueang bpen khǎawng-chái sǎm-ràp phrá-sǒng khâ.", Which means Inside the yellow bucket there are useful items for the monks--I'm not sure what the khwawng is doing there,,,,does it mean "thing?

Hello Dawed,

Thank you very much for your comment. For your question, I really apologized for my delay answer. In Thai we never say: ผมทำงานสำหรับบริษัทนี้ = I work for this company, but this sentence ผมทำงานให้บริษัทนี้ = I work for this company, is fine, or you can use "gap" in stead of "hâi". In Thai “สำหรับ” [sǎm-ràp] used in "This parking spot is for handicapped persons only" and “ให้” [hâi] used in "I opened the door for mother". Hope that helps.

Have a nice day.

Parisa

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Hello ! In this lesson, we learn the word “สำหรับ” [sǎm-ràp] = for. But I don’t really see the difference of usage with the word “ให้” [hâi] = for, to give.

For example:

1/ ผมทำงานสำหรับบริษัทนี้ = I work for this company

2/ ผมทำงานให้บริษัทนี้ = I work for this company

Are the 2 sentences above right? If yes, what is the difference between these 2 sentences?

Regards,

Dawed

Dear Andy,

Thank you very much for your comment. For your question, ก็ means "also" ออกไป means "to go out"

But here are talking about เหตุผล ("reason").

So I'd say เหตุผล...ออกไป is "putting out their reasons".

Have a good day. :)

Parisa

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Hi, I've probably missed something but I'm having a problem with the last sentence "แต่ละคนเขาก็มีเหตุผลทีแตกต่างกันออกไปค่ะ" - what do ก็ (gâaw) and ออกไป (àawk bpai) mean?

thanks for any help, Andy