Breakdown of ใช้ เวลา กี่ ชั่วโมง ครับ
ครับ
polite particle (male)
กี่
how many
ใช้
to use
เวลา
time
ชั่วโมง
hour
Questions & Answers about ใช้ เวลา กี่ ชั่วโมง ครับ
Why is the word for "how many" (กี่) placed before ชั่วโมง (hours)?
In Thai, when asking "how many", the question word กี่ always comes before the classifier or measure word. In this case, ชั่วโมง acts as its own measure word for "hours". Therefore, "how many hours" translates directly to กี่ชั่วโมง.
I learned that ใช้ means "to use". Why is it translated as "does it take" here?
In Thai, to express that an action or event "takes" a certain amount of time, you literally say it "uses time" (ใช้เวลา). So, whenever you want to talk about how long something takes, you will use ใช้.
Where is the word for "it" or "does" in this sentence?
Thai often drops subjects like "it" when the context is clear. Also, Thai doesn't use helper verbs like "does" to form questions. The question word กี่ is enough to turn this phrase into a question.
If I want to ask "how many days does it take?", do I just swap out the word for hours?
Exactly! You keep the exact same structure and just replace ชั่วโมง (hours) with the word for days, which is วัน. So, "How many days does it take?" would be ใช้เวลากี่วันครับ.
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