ฉัน ทำ พาสต้า ซอส มะเขือเทศ เอง ค่ะ

Questions & Answers about ฉัน ทำ พาสต้า ซอส มะเขือเทศ เอง ค่ะ

Why does เอง come at the very end of the action instead of right after the verb ทำ?
In Thai, the word เอง (by oneself) is placed after the verb and its object. Here, the entire phrase พาสต้าซอสมะเขือเทศ (pasta with tomato sauce) is the object, so เอง must wait until after มะเขือเทศ to show that you made that whole dish yourself.
The translation says pasta with tomato sauce, so why isn't the word กับ (with) used in the Thai sentence?
When naming a dish and its main flavor, topping, or sauce, Thai usually just places the nouns side-by-side to create a compound noun. Saying พาสต้าซอสมะเขือเทศ is like saying tomato sauce pasta in English. Using กับ would sound more like you are eating plain pasta and a separate bowl of sauce on the side!
How does the word order in ซอสมะเขือเทศ work?
Remember that Thai modifiers always follow the main noun. ซอส (sauce) is the main thing, and มะเขือเทศ (tomato) describes what kind of sauce it is. So tomato sauce becomes sauce-tomato in Thai.

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