ไม่ มี ใคร รู้ ว่า เกิด ฆาตกรรม ขึ้น เมื่อคืน ค่ะ

Questions & Answers about ไม่ มี ใคร รู้ ว่า เกิด ฆาตกรรม ขึ้น เมื่อคืน ค่ะ

Why is ฆาตกรรม (murder) sandwiched between เกิด and ขึ้น?
This is the standard Thai sentence structure for saying an event happened. The verb เกิด (to happen or occur) comes first, followed by the event noun (in this case, ฆาตกรรม), and often ends with the directional word ขึ้น (up). You can think of it literally as saying a murder sprang up.
Why do we use ไม่มีใคร (mai mi khrai) for 'nobody'? Could we just say ไม่ใคร?
In Thai, you cannot negate a pronoun like 'anyone' directly with just ไม่ (not). Instead, you express 'nobody' by saying 'there is not anyone', using ไม่มี (there is not) plus ใคร (anyone). So ไม่มีใครรู้ literally translates to 'there is not anyone who knows'.
What is the exact purpose of ว่า (wa) in this sentence?
It acts as the conjunction 'that'. After verbs related to thinking, knowing, or speaking like รู้ (to know), you use ว่า to link to the phrase that explains exactly what is known. It bridges the two parts: Nobody knew that a murder occurred.
The English translation says 'knew' and 'occurred', but there are no past tense markers like แล้ว (laeo) here. Why is that?
Thai grammar does not require past tense markers if the timeframe is already clear from the rest of the sentence. The time phrase เมื่อคืน (last night) perfectly establishes that this entire situation happened in the past, making extra grammar words unnecessary.

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