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นั่น　บ้าน　ค่ะ

นั่น　บ้าน　ค่ะ
That is a house. (female speaker)
From Lesson 1:Demonstrative pronouns (นี่, นั่น)·Thai

Breakdown of นั่น　บ้าน　ค่ะ

บ้าน
house
นั่น
that
ค่ะ
polite particle (female)

Questions & Answers about นั่น　บ้าน　ค่ะ

Why is there no word for "is" in this sentence?
In Thai, when using demonstrative pronouns like นั่น (that) to identify something, you often do not need to use a verb for "to be." You can simply put the pronoun and the noun together. นั่น บ้าน acts as the full sentence "That is a house."
Is นั่น the only word for "that"? I thought I saw it spelled differently before.
You might be thinking of นั้น (with a high tone). นั่น (falling tone) is a pronoun meaning "that thing" or "that is," which stands alone as the subject of the sentence, like we see here. The other word, นั้น, is a modifier used right after a noun, like in บ้าน นั้น (that house).
Could a male speaker use this exact sentence?
No, the word ค่ะ at the end is a politeness particle used only by female speakers. A male speaker would replace it with ครับ and say นั่น บ้าน ครับ.
Why is the polite particle spelled ค่ะ here instead of คะ?
Female speakers use ค่ะ (falling tone) for statements and answers, just like in this sentence. The spelling คะ (high tone) is strictly used at the end of questions.

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