Breakdown of เสื้อ ไหมพรม หด เพราะ น้ำ ร้อน ครับ
ครับ
polite particle (male)
น้ำ
water
ร้อน
hot
เสื้อ
the shirt
เพราะ
because
ไหมพรม
yarn
หด
to shrink
Questions & Answers about เสื้อ ไหมพรม หด เพราะ น้ำ ร้อน ครับ
Why does ไหมพรม mean "wool"?
It is a compound word. ไหม means "silk" or "thread", and พรม means "carpet" or "rug". Together, ไหมพรม refers to knitting yarn or wool. When combined with เสื้อ (shirt), เสื้อไหมพรม is the standard way to say "sweater" or "wool shirt".
The English translation says "because of", but the Thai sentence only uses เพราะ. Do we need a word for "of"?
No extra word is needed. In Thai, เพราะ is flexible enough to act as a conjunction meaning "because" before a full clause, or as a preposition meaning "because of" directly before a noun phrase like น้ำร้อน (hot water).
There is no past tense marker like แล้ว in this sentence. How do we know it means "shrank" and not "shrinks"?
Context makes it clear. While you could add แล้ว at the end to emphasize that the action is completed, Thai often omits tense markers if the situation already implies a past event. Explaining why a specific shirt is currently too small naturally implies the shrinking already happened.
Can I use หด (shrink) when talking about prices or numbers going down?
No, หด is specifically used for physical things that contract, recoil, or shrink in size, like clothes or a turtle pulling its head into its shell. If you want to say a price or quantity decreased, you would use ลด instead.
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