Questions & Answers about เพราะ คน เยอะ ครับ
How does the word เพราะ connect to the "why" questions we are learning in this lesson?
In this lesson, you are learning to ask "why" using ทำไม. To answer a "why" question, you simply start your reply with เพราะ, which means "because".
The English translation says "there are many people." Why don't we use the Thai word for "there is" (มี) here?
In Thai, you don't always need a verb like "there are" to describe a quantity. You can just say คนเยอะ (literally "people many") to mean "there are a lot of people." You could say มีคนเยอะ, but dropping the word มี is very natural in spoken Thai.
Could I use มาก instead of เยอะ to mean "many" people?
You could, but เยอะ is much more natural here. In spoken Thai, เยอะ is the go-to word for "a lot" or "many" when talking about physical quantities. มาก is more often used as "very" to describe adjectives, like saying someone is very tall.
Is it normal to use the polite particle ครับ at the end of a short sentence fragment like this?
Yes! Even though this is just a short reply answering a question, adding your polite gender particle (ครับ for men, ค่ะ for women) at the end of the phrase is perfectly correct and keeps your everyday conversations polite.