Word
เขา มี น้ำ ค่ะ
Meaning
She has water.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of เขา มี น้ำ ค่ะ
ค่ะ
polite particle (female)
เขา
he, she, they
มี
to have / there is / there are
น้ำ
water
Questions & Answers about เขา มี น้ำ ค่ะ
The translation says "She", but doesn't เขา mean "he"?
เขา is actually a gender-neutral pronoun. It can mean "he", "she", or even "they" depending on who you are talking about. The translation says "She" here because of a specific context not shown in the single sentence, but the word itself does not specify gender.
Could we drop the word เขา from this sentence entirely?
Yes! If it is already obvious from the conversation who you are talking about, you can drop the subject completely and just say มี น้ำ ค่ะ (Has water). Omitting obvious subjects and objects is a very common feature in Thai.
Does the polite particle ค่ะ mean the subject (เขา) is female?
No, ค่ะ tells us that the speaker of the sentence is female. The polite particle always matches the person talking, not the person you are talking about. A female speaker would still use ค่ะ even if เขา meant "he" in this context.
Why is there no word for "some" or "any" before น้ำ?
Thai does not use articles like "a", "an", "the", or "some" in basic sentences like this. The word น้ำ simply means "water", so the basic subject-verb-object order (เขา มี น้ำ) works perfectly on its own without extra words.