Breakdown of เขา อวดอ้าง สรรพคุณ เกินจริง ครับ
ครับ
polite particle (male)
เขา
he, she, they
อวดอ้าง
to boast / to claim (boastfully)
สรรพคุณ
the property / the benefit (of medicine or products)
เกินจริง
exaggerated
Questions & Answers about เขา อวดอ้าง สรรพคุณ เกินจริง ครับ
สรรพคุณ translates to "benefits" here. Could I just use the more common word ประโยชน์ instead?
Not quite, as they have different nuances. While ประโยชน์ means "benefit" or "usefulness" in a general sense, สรรพคุณ specifically refers to the properties, qualities, or efficacy of a product—especially medicine, herbs, supplements, or cosmetics. This sentence implies someone is making grand claims about what a specific product can cure or do.
Does the word อวดอ้าง mean "to exaggerate"?
Not on its own. อวด means "to show off" or "to boast," and อ้าง means "to claim." Together, อวดอ้าง means "to make boastful claims." The "exaggerate" part of the English translation actually comes from combining this action with the modifier เกินจริง at the end of the sentence.
How exactly does เกินจริง break down?
เกิน means "to exceed" or "go beyond," and จริง means "truth" or "reality." It functions as an adverbial phrase here meaning "unrealistically" or "beyond the truth." He is making claims about the product's properties (อวดอ้างสรรพคุณ) in a way that exceeds reality (เกินจริง).
Since this lesson is about the refutative negation ไม่เห็นจะ, how would I use it to disagree with this sentence?
If someone accused him of this and you wanted to defend him by saying, "I don't see him exaggerating the benefits at all!", you would place ไม่เห็นจะ directly before the main verb: เขาไม่เห็นจะอวดอ้างสรรพคุณเกินจริงเลยครับ. Adding เลย (at all) at the end is very natural here to strengthen your disagreement.
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