Breakdown of เมื่อวาน แม่ กำลัง ทอด ปลา ค่ะ
ค่ะ
polite particle (female)
ปลา
fish
แม่
mother
เมื่อวาน
yesterday
กำลัง
in the process of
ทอด
to fry
Questions & Answers about เมื่อวาน แม่ กำลัง ทอด ปลา ค่ะ
How can กำลัง mean "was" frying? I thought it meant "is" doing something right now.
Could I put เมื่อวาน (yesterday) at the end of the sentence instead?
Yes! In Thai, time words usually go at the very beginning or the very end of a sentence. You could also put เมื่อวาน right before ค่ะ and it would mean exactly the same thing. Putting it at the beginning just emphasizes the "when".
Why doesn't it say "my mom"? It just says แม่ (mom).
In Thai, it is very common to drop possessive words like "my" when it is obvious from the context. If you are talking about your own mother to someone else, just saying แม่ is perfectly natural.
Does the polite word ค่ะ (kha) mean the mother is female, or the person speaking is female?
It means the person speaking is female! Polite particles like ค่ะ (for women) and ครับ (for men) always match the gender of the person saying the sentence, regardless of who the sentence is actually about.
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