Breakdown of วันนี้ ปริมาณ ลูกค้า คงจะ ไม่ค่อย เยอะ ค่ะ
ค่ะ
polite particle (female)
วันนี้
today
เยอะ
a lot
ลูกค้า
customer
ไม่ค่อย
not really
คงจะ
probably will / might be
ปริมาณ
the amount / the volume
Questions & Answers about วันนี้ ปริมาณ ลูกค้า คงจะ ไม่ค่อย เยอะ ค่ะ
Why does คงจะ come before ไม่ค่อย?
คงจะ (probably will) is a modal verb that expresses the speaker's speculation about the whole situation. It is placed before the negative phrase ไม่ค่อย (not very). Think of the structure as 'probably will + not be very + a lot'.
I thought ปริมาณ meant 'quantity' or 'amount' for uncountable things. Can it be used for countable people like ลูกค้า?
Yes! While จำนวน strictly means 'number' (countable), Thai speakers frequently use ปริมาณ to talk about the general volume or mass of a crowd. You will often hear ปริมาณลูกค้า (volume of customers) or ปริมาณรถ (volume of traffic) when the focus is on the overall crowd size rather than an exact headcount.
Where is the main verb in this sentence? I don't see a word for 'to be'.
In Thai, adjectives like เยอะ (a lot / many) function as stative verbs. You do not need a 'to be' verb like เป็น or คือ before them. Because เยอะ acts as the main verb here, the auxiliary คงจะ and the modifier ไม่ค่อย are placed directly in front of it.
The lesson teaches both คง and คงจะ. Could I just say คงไม่ค่อยเยอะ instead?
Yes, you absolutely can. คง and คงจะ are interchangeable in most cases. Dropping the จะ makes it slightly shorter and very natural for casual speech, while คงจะ sounds a tiny bit more complete. Both work perfectly here.
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