Breakdown of เมื่อเช้า คุณ กิน อะไร ครับ
ครับ
polite particle (male)
กิน
to eat
คุณ
you
อะไร
what
เมื่อเช้า
this morning (earlier today)
Questions & Answers about เมื่อเช้า คุณ กิน อะไร ครับ
There is no past tense word like แล้ว (already) here. How do we know the sentence is in the past tense?
In Thai, verbs don't change tense. Since เมื่อเช้า (this morning) already tells us the action happened in the past, you don't strictly need to add a tense marker like แล้ว. The time word alone makes the context clear!
Why is เมื่อเช้า (this morning) at the very beginning of the sentence instead of the end?
Thai is very flexible with time words. You can put them at the beginning of the sentence to set the scene, or at the end. Saying คุณกินอะไรเมื่อเช้าครับ is also perfectly correct and natural.
Why does อะไร (what) come after the verb instead of at the front?
Unlike English, Thai doesn't move question words to the front. The question word อะไร simply sits in the exact same spot where the answer will go. Since the answer is 'I ate [food]', the question structure is literally 'You ate [what]?'.
I learned that เมื่อ means 'when'. Why does it translate to 'this' in เมื่อเช้า?
When เมื่อ is placed in front of a time of day, it points to the past. So เมื่อเช้า specifically means the morning that just passed, or 'this morning'. You will also see this in words like เมื่อวาน (yesterday).
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