Fill in the correct personal pronoun

Exercise 1: Fill in the correct personal pronoun into the table

Nominative Case	Accusative Case	Personal Pronouns
I (female)	Me	ฉัน ดิฉัน
I (male)	Me	ผม
You	You	คุณ
He	Him	เขา
She	Her	เธอ
It	It	มัน
You (plural)	You	พวกคุณ
We (both genders)	Us	พวกเรา
We (female)	Us	พวกฉัน
We (male)	Us	พวกผม
They (both genders)	Them	พวกเขา
They (females)	Them	พวกเธอ
It (plural)	it	พวกมัน

Exercise 2: Fill in the correct time words which indicate Present Tense

เสมอ ๆ	Always	_____________________________
บ่อย ๆ	Often	_____________________________
ไม่บ่อย	not often	_____________________________
บางครั้ง	sometime	_____________________________
ประจำ	Usually	_____________________________
ปกติ	usually, normally	_____________________________
นาน ๆ ครั้ง	Rarely	_____________________________
ตอนนี้	Now	_____________________________
เดี๊ยวนี้	Now	_____________________________
ทุกวัน	Everyday	_____________________________

Particles

Particles

The particles 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. They are not used in elegant (written) Thai. The most common particles indicating respect are ครับ (krab) for a man and ค่ะ (kà) for a woman

Other common particles are:

Word		Meaning
จ๊ะ	já	indicating a request
จ้ะ, จ้าor จ๋า	jâ	indicating emphasis
ละor ล่ะ	là	indicating emphasis
สิ	Si	indicating emphasis or an imperative
นะ	na	softening; indicating a request
ว่ะ	Wà	indicating emphasis (only used among close friends), not polite

Time words

Time words which indicate Present Tense

เสมอ ๆ	sa-mur samur	Always
บ่อย ๆ	bòoi bòoi	Often
ไม่บ่อย	mâi  bòoi	not often
บางครั้ง	baang-krúng	sometime
ประจำ	bpra-jum	Usually
ปกติ	bprog-ga-dti	usually, normally
นาน ๆ ครั้ง	naan naan krúng	Rarely
ตอนนี้	dtorn-née	Now
เดี๊ยวนี้	díaw-née	Now
ทุกวัน	toog-wan	everyday

 

Present Simple (I do)

Usage: We use the present simple to talk about things in general. We are not thinking only about the present. We use it to say that something happens all the time or repeatedly, or that something is true in general. It is not important whether that action is happening at the time of speaking.

Positive Sentence:                   Subject + Verb(s) + Object

Negative Sentence:                 Subject + mâi + Verb(s) + Object

Question Sentence:                Subject + Verb(s) + Object + Question Word

more examples,

เธอฟังเพลง	Tur fung pleng.	She listens to music.
แม่ทำอาหารไทย	Mâir tam aa-haan Thai.	Mother cooks Thai food.
พ่ออ่านหนังสือ	Pôr àrn nang-seu.	Dad reads book.
พวกเราดูโทรทัศน์	Puag-rao doo tho-ra-tad	We watch television.
ผมไม่ชอบเธอ	Pom mâi  chorb tur.	I do not like her.
เขาไม่ไปกรุงเทพ	Khao mâi  bpai Groong-teb.	He does not go to Bangkok.

Verbs

Verbs

Thai verbs don’t conjugate!

Grammar in Thai is actully much easier to learn than in other languages. The words never change forms. Learners don’t have to memorize any charts to make verbs in past, future, present continuous, etc. Instead, thai just adds other words to the sentence to affect the meaning.

Most common used verbs: Set 1

Verb do not inflect (i.e. do not change with person, tense, voice, mood or number) nor are there any participles. Duplication conveys the idea of doing the verb intensively.

กิน	Gin	eat
เข้าใจ	khâo-jai	understand
ชอบ	Chorb	like
ดื่ม	Dèum	drink
ดู	Doo	see
ทำ	Tam	do
ทำงาน	tam-ngaan	work
ทำอาหาร	tam-aa-haan	cook
นอน	Norn	sleep
เป็น	Bpen	verb to be
ไป	Bpai	go
พูด	Pood	speak
ฟัง	Fung	listen
มา	Maa	come
มี	Mee	have
รัก	Rug	love
เรียน	Rian	study, learn
สอน	Sorn	teach
อยู่	Yòo	live
อ่าน	arn	read

Present Simple

Present Simple

Grammar

From the perspective of linguistic typology,, Thai can be considered to be an analytic language. The word order is subject–verb–object, although the subject is often omitted. Thai pronouns are selected according to the gender and relative status of speaker and audience.

Nouns

Nouns are uninflected and have no gender, there are no articles. Nouns are neither singular nor plural. Some specific nouns are reduplicated to form collectives: เด็ก (deg=child) is often repeated as เด็ก ๆ (deg deg= more than 1 child) to refer to a group of children. The word พวก (puag) may be used as a prefix of a noun or pronoun as a collective to pluralize or emphasis the following word, for examples พวกผม (puag-pom=we masculine), พวกฉัน (puag-chan=we feminine), พวกเรา (puag-rao=we both genders) and พวกแมว (puag maew = cats).

Pronouns

Subject pronouns are often omitted, with nicknames used where English would use a pronoun. Pronouns, when used, are ranked in honorific registers. Specialized pronouns are used for those with royal and noble titles, and for clergy. The following are appropriate for conversational use.

Personal Pronouns

Personal Pronouns		Subject	Object
ฉัน ดิฉัน	Chan/ Di-chan	I (female)	me
ผม	Pom	I (male)	me
คุณ	Koon	You	You
เขา	Khao	He	Him
เธอ	Tur	She	Her
มัน	Mun	It	It
พวกคุณ	Puag koon	You (plural)	You
พวกเรา	Puag rao	We (both genders)	us
พวกฉัน	Puag chan	We (female)	us
พวกผม	Puag pom	We (male)	us
พวกเขา	Puag khao	They (both genders)	Them
พวกเธอ	Puag chan	They (females)	Them
พวกมัน	Puag mun	It (plural)	it

Note: We add “Puag” in front of singular personal pronoun to form plural personal pronoun