Breakdown of มี ประชุม เที่ยง ตรง ค่ะ
ค่ะ
polite particle (female)
มี
to have / there is / there are
ตรง
exactly
ประชุม
the meeting
เที่ยง
noon
Questions & Answers about มี ประชุม เที่ยง ตรง ค่ะ
Why does the sentence start with มี? I learned that means "to have".
In Thai, มี means both "to have" and "there is" or "there are". You don't need to add a dummy subject like "there" in English. So มี ประชุม literally means "have meeting", which naturally translates to "there is a meeting".
Where is the word for "at"? Shouldn't it be "meeting at noon"?
Thai often skips prepositions like "at" or "on" when stating the time of an event. You can just put the event and the time right next to each other, like ประชุม เที่ยง.
I learned ตรง means "straight" for directions. What does it mean here?
When you put ตรง right after a time word, it means "exactly" or "on the dot" (like "noon sharp"). It is the same core idea as "straight", but applied to time!
If I wanted to ask what time the meeting is, how would I use กี่โมง from this lesson?
Thai questions keep the exact same word order as statements. You just replace the specific time (เที่ยง ตรง) with the question word กี่โมง. So to ask "What time is the meeting?", you would simply say มี ประชุม กี่โมง.
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