Breakdown of เส้นทาง นี้ เดิน กลับ ยาก มาก ค่ะ
ค่ะ
polite particle (female)
มาก
very / much, more
นี้
this (modifier)
กลับ
to return
เดิน
to walk
ยาก
difficult
เส้นทาง
route
Questions & Answers about เส้นทาง นี้ เดิน กลับ ยาก มาก ค่ะ
How does กลับ work together with เดิน in this sentence?
In this sentence, กลับ acts as an extended directional serial verb attached to the primary motion verb เดิน (to walk). While กลับ can be a main verb meaning "to return" on its own, placing it directly after เดิน creates the compound action "to walk back" or "to return on foot."
Since this involves direction, could I say เดินกลับไป or เดินกลับมา instead?
Yes, you absolutely can! Adding ไป (away from the speaker) or มา (toward the speaker) makes the direction more specific, meaning "walk back there" or "walk back here." However, just using เดินกลับ is perfectly natural when stating a general fact about the route itself, where the speaker's location doesn't need to be emphasized.
Why is เส้นทางนี้ placed at the very beginning of the sentence?
This is a great example of the "topic-comment" structure, which is very common in Thai. The sentence introduces เส้นทางนี้ (this route) as the main topic, and the rest of the sentence (เดินกลับยากมากค่ะ) acts as the comment describing it. It literally translates to something like, "As for this route, walking back is very hard."
What is the difference between using เส้นทาง and just saying ทาง?
ทาง simply means "way" or "path" in a general sense. By adding เส้น (the classifier word for lines and strings), เส้นทาง becomes the more specific word for a "route," "course," or "itinerary." Using เส้นทาง sounds a bit more specific, like you are talking about a designated hiking trail or a mapped journey rather than just a random path.
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