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ขนาด　ห้อง　นี้　เท่ากับ　บ้าน　ค่ะ

ขนาด　ห้อง　นี้　เท่ากับ　บ้าน　ค่ะ
The size of this room is equal to a house.
From Lesson 90:Equative comparisons (เท่า)·Thai

Breakdown of ขนาด　ห้อง　นี้　เท่ากับ　บ้าน　ค่ะ

บ้าน
house
ค่ะ
polite particle (female)
ห้อง
room
นี้
this (modifier)
เท่ากับ
equal to
ขนาด
size / dimension

Questions & Answers about ขนาด　ห้อง　นี้　เท่ากับ　บ้าน　ค่ะ

Why does this sentence use เท่ากับ instead of just เท่า?
In this lesson, we use เท่า when there is a descriptive word to say something is as big or as small as something else. But here, we are directly comparing two nouns: the room's size (ขนาด) and a house (บ้าน). When saying Noun A is exactly equal to Noun B, we use เท่ากับ.
How would I rewrite this to say the room is as big as a house using เท่า?
To say the room is as big as a house, you would use a descriptive word like big (ใหญ่) plus เท่า. It would be ห้อง นี้ ใหญ่ เท่า บ้าน ค่ะ. Our current sentence focuses on the noun ขนาด (size) instead of a descriptive word.
The English translation says size of this room. Why is there no word for of (ของ) in the Thai sentence?
While you could technically say ขนาด ของ ห้อง นี้, Thai speakers usually drop the word for of (ของ) when the relationship between the words is clear. Simply putting the words together as ขนาด ห้อง perfectly expresses the room's size.
In English, we might say equal to the size of a house. Do we need to repeat the word for size in Thai?
No, you do not have to! Thai is a very efficient language and drops words that are already understood from context. Since you brought up ขนาด (size) at the start of the sentence, repeating it before บ้าน (house) is not necessary.

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