How to use demonstrative pronouns in Thai

How to use demonstrative pronouns in Thai

You want to learn how to use demonstrative pronouns in Thai? You've come to the right place! Scroll down and see the short Thai lessons complete with useful examples. This house, that house... we make learning Thai demonstrative pronouns easy for you.

Thai demonstrative pronouns : this

Demonstrative pronouns are used with nouns to make them more specific. The English demonstrative pronoun 'this' is '' in Thai.

Examples

hǐn goan nī
this stone
apel lūk nī
this apple
puyiŋ kun nī
this woman
má dua nī
this horse
dèk-puyiŋ kun nī
this girl
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Step 6 : Thai demonstrative pronouns

Demonstrative pronouns are used to refer to specific objects and their locations. In English, this would be the words this and these to refer to objects which are near and that and those to refer to objects which are further away. Using the nouns naŋsö, gaoī and bràtdū (book, chair, door) which you learned in Step 3, learn to use the demonstrative pronouns with each of these nouns (this book, that chair, these doors). You can scroll to the top of this page to see a short lesson about Thai demonstrative pronouns including useful examples. After you've learned to use the Thai demonstrative pronouns with the nouns naŋsö, gaoī and bràtdū and the plural nouns nângsû, gaoī dua and bràtdū you can move on to Step 7 (Thai adjectives).

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