Breakdown of น้ำหนัก ผม เท่ากับ เขา ครับ
ครับ
polite particle (male)
ผม
I (male)
เขา
he, she, they
น้ำหนัก
weight
เท่ากับ
equal to
Questions & Answers about น้ำหนัก ผม เท่ากับ เขา ครับ
Why doesn't the sentence use ของ to say "my weight" and "his"?
In Thai, possession is often shown simply by putting the pronoun right after the noun. While you could say น้ำหนักของผม for "my weight", dropping ของ is very common and natural in conversational Thai. The same applies to เขา at the end, which functions as "his [weight]" here.
The lesson teaches both เท่า and เท่ากับ. Could I just use เท่า in this sentence?
Not in this exact sentence. เท่ากับ acts like a verb meaning "to be equal to" and is used when directly comparing two nouns (My weight = his weight). If you only use เท่า (as... as), you need an adjective before it.
How would the sentence change if I used the adjective หนัก (heavy) instead of the noun น้ำหนัก (weight)?
You would use the "Noun + Adjective + เท่า + Noun" pattern. The sentence would become ผมหนักเท่าเขาครับ (I am as heavy as him). Notice that with the adjective, we drop the กับ and just use เท่า.
Does เขา usually mean "he", "him", or "his"?
Thai pronouns do not change their form whether they are a subject (he), object (him), or possessive (his). You rely entirely on the context. Since the first part of the sentence is about "my weight", it is automatically understood that เขา here represents "his [weight]".
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