Grammar

Question 1

Thai is an isolating language. What’s an isolating language?

Answer 1

An isolating language is a type of language with a morpheme per word ratio close to one, and with no inflectional morphology whatsoever.

Question 2

Thai word order is SVO. What is word order?

Answer 2

Word order (also known as linear order) is the order of the syntactic constituents of a language.

Question 3

Thai is an analytic language. What’s an analytic language?

Answer 3

An analytic language is a language that conveys relationships between words in sentences primarily by way of helper words (particles, prepositions, etc.) and word order, as opposed to using inflections (changing the form of a word to convey its role in the sentence).

Question 4

What’s the distinction between Thai adjectives and adverbs?

Answer 4

There is no morphological distinction between adverbs and adjectives. Many words can be used in either function. They follow the word they modify, which may be a noun, verb, or another adjective or adverb.

Question 5

How are comparatives expressed?

Answer 5

“A X กว่า B” ‘S/he is fatter than me.’ Direct tranlation = She Fat than I

Question 6

How are superlatives expressed?

Answer 6

“A X ที่สุด” ‘S/he is the fattest (of all).’ Direct Tranlation = She fat most

Question 7

How do you form the present tense?

Answer 7

Subject + Verb (ฉันหิว)

Question 8

How do you form the future tense?

Answer 8

Subject + จะ + Verb (ฉันจะหิว)

Question 9

Whats a distinction about Thai verbs?

Answer 9

Do not inflect

Question 10

Tell me about Thai articles.

Answer 10

No “a” or “the” in Thai

Question 11

How do you negate something?

Answer 11

ไม่ (mai, [mâj] not) before the verb.

Question 12

Tell me about Thai nouns.

Answer 12

Nouns are uninflected and have no gender; there are no articles. Thai nouns are bare nouns and can be interpreted as singular, plural, definite or indefinite. Some specific nouns are reduplicated to form collectives: เด็ก(dek, ‘child’) is often repeated as เด็ก ๆ (dek dek) to refer to a group of children.

Question 13

Which word may be used as a prefix of a noun or pronoun as a collective to pluralize or emphasise the following word?

Answer 13

พวก

Question 14

Plurals are expressed by adding?

Answer 14

Classifiers:s a word or affix that accompanies nouns and can be considered to “classify” a noun. depending on the type of its referent. It is also sometimes called a measure word or counter word. ครู ห้า คน ‘teacher five person’

Question 15

How is possession expressed?

Answer 15

indicated by adding the word ของ (khong) in front of the noun or pronoun, but it may often be omitted. ลูก ของ แม่ ‘child belongingto mother’ = ‘mother’s child’

Question 16

Pronouns, when used, are ranked in?

Answer 16

honorific registers

Question 17

I/me (masculine; formal)

Answer 17

ผม

Question 18

I/me (feminine; formal)

Answer 18

ดิฉัน

Question 19

I/me (mainly used by women; informal) Commonly pronounced as [t͡ɕʰán]

Answer 19

ฉัน

Question 20

I/me (informal/impolite)

Answer 20

กู

Question 21

I/me (used by women when speaking to people much older than themselves)[30]

Answer 21

หนู

Question 22

we/us, I/me (casual), you (sometimes used but only when older person speaks to younger person)

Answer 22

เรา

Question 23

you (polite)

Answer 23

คุณ

Question 24

you (highly honorific)

Answer 24

ท่าน

Question 25

you (informal, used among close friends)[31]

Answer 25

แก

Question 26

you (informal), she/her (informal)

Answer 26

เธอ

Question 27

older brother, sister (also used for older acquaintances)

Answer 27

พี่

Question 28

younger brother, sister (also used for younger acquaintances)

Answer 28

น้อง

Question 29

he/him, she/her

Answer 29

เขา

Question 30

it, he/she (sometimes casual or offensive if used to refer to a person)

Answer 30

มัน

Question 31

you (informal/impolite)

Answer 31

มึง

Question 32

The reflexive pronoun is_____, which can mean any of: myself, yourself, ourselves, himself, herself, themselves.

Answer 32

ตัวเอง

Question 33

Particles are?

Answer 33

are often untranslatable words added to the end of a sentence to indicate respect, a request, encouragement or other moods (similar to the use of intonation in English), as well as varying the level of formality

Question 34

The most common particles indicating respect are?

Answer 34

ครับ when the speaker is male, and ค่ะ when the speaker is female.

Question 35

What’s different about the particle ค่ะ (falling tone) when used in a question?

Answer 35

is changed to a คะ (high tone).

Question 36

What do these words indicate? จ้ะ, จ้า or จ๋า

Answer 36

indicating emphasis. Used in a less formal context when speaking to friends or someone younger than yourself

Question 37

What do these words indicate? ละ or ล่ะ

Answer 37

indicating emphasis.

Question 38

What does this word indicate? สิ

Answer 38

indicating emphasis or an imperative. It can come across as ordering someone to do something

Question 39

What does this word indicate? นะ

Answer 39

softening; indicating a request or making your sentence sound more friendly.