Breakdown of หิน บน หน้าผา นี้ ลื่น มาก ค่ะ
ค่ะ
polite particle (female)
มาก
very / much, more
บน
on
นี้
this (modifier)
หิน
rock
หน้าผา
cliff
ลื่น
slippery
Questions & Answers about หิน บน หน้าผา นี้ ลื่น มาก ค่ะ
ลื่น means 'slippery' here. Since this lesson covers directional verbs like ลง (down), can I use ลื่น as an action verb to mean 'to slip down'?
Yes! ลื่น can mean both the description 'slippery' and the action 'to slip'. If you wanted to say 'I slipped down', you would use the directional verb ลง (down) from this lesson: ฉัน ลื่น ลง (I slip down). In our example sentence, however, ลื่น is just describing the condition of the rock, so no directional verb is added.
Why isn't there a Thai word for 'is' before ลื่น (slippery)?
In Thai, description words (adjectives) like ลื่น act as verbs all by themselves. You don't need to use a 'to be' verb like เป็น or อยู่ before them. You simply say the equivalent of 'The rock on this cliff very slippery'.
I'm a bit rusty on word order. Why is it หน้าผา นี้ instead of นี้ หน้าผา for 'this cliff'?
In Thai, the noun always comes first, followed by the word pointing to it (like this, that, these, those). So 'this cliff' is translated as 'cliff this' (หน้าผา นี้). The whole location phrase บน หน้าผา นี้ (on this cliff) then sits right after หิน (rock) to specify exactly which rock we are talking about.
What is the literal breakdown of the word หน้าผา (cliff)?
It breaks down into หน้า (face or front) and ผา (steep rock). So it literally means a 'rock face'. Don't confuse it with ภูเขา (mountain), which refers to the entire mountain rather than just the steep drop-off!
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