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แถวนี้　มี　ร้านอาหาร　เยอะ　ค่ะ

แถวนี้　มี　ร้านอาหาร　เยอะ　ค่ะ
There are many restaurants around here.
From Lesson 11:There is / there are (มี)·Thai

Questions & Answers about แถวนี้　มี　ร้านอาหาร　เยอะ　ค่ะ

Since this lesson is about pronouns like ฉัน and คุณ, why aren't there any in this sentence?
When saying "there is" or "there are" in Thai, you don't use a dummy pronoun like "there" or "it" as you do in English. Instead, you just use the word มี, which normally means "to have", to express "there is" or "there are".
Why does แถวนี้ (around here) come at the very beginning?
Thai often puts the location or the main "topic" at the very front of the sentence to set the scene. You can think of the literal structure as: "As for around here, (it) has many restaurants."
Why is it ร้านอาหาร เยอะ (restaurant many) instead of the other way around?
In Thai, words that describe a noun come after the noun. This rule applies to descriptive adjectives (like big or small), and it also applies to quantity words like เยอะ (a lot / many).
The sentence ends with ค่ะ. Does that change the meaning?
It doesn't change the translation, but it changes the tone by making it polite. ค่ะ is the polite ending particle used by female speakers. If you identify as male, you would swap it for ครับ instead.

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