Breakdown of แม่ บอก ว่า กำลัง ซื้อ อาหาร ค่ะ
ค่ะ
polite particle (female)
อาหาร
food
ซื้อ
to buy
แม่
mother
กำลัง
in the process of
ว่า
that (conjunction)
บอก
to tell
Questions & Answers about แม่ บอก ว่า กำลัง ซื้อ อาหาร ค่ะ
Why do we use ว่า after บอก here?
บอก means to say or to tell. When you want to follow it with a full clause explaining what was said, you use ว่า as a linking word. It works just like the word that in the English phrase Mom said that.
Where is the word for she in the second half of the sentence?
Thai frequently drops pronouns when the context makes it obvious who is doing the action. Since Mom (แม่) is the subject of the first part, we already know who is doing the buying, so a second pronoun is not needed here.
How does กำลัง change the meaning of the verb ซื้อ?
กำลัง is placed right before a verb to show that an action is happening right now, similar to the -ing ending in English. So กำลังซื้อ means is currently buying.
Because the sentence ends with ค่ะ, does this mean Mom is speaking?
Not necessarily. The polite particle ค่ะ matches the gender of the speaker of the whole sentence, not the person being talked about. This means the person reporting what Mom said is female. If a male speaker were telling you this, he would use ครับ at the end instead.
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