Breakdown of เมื่อวาน ฉัน ป่วย ก็เลย ลาป่วย ค่ะ
ค่ะ
polite particle (female)
ฉัน
I (female)
เมื่อวาน
yesterday
ป่วย
sick
ก็เลย
so / therefore
ลาป่วย
to take sick leave
Questions & Answers about เมื่อวาน ฉัน ป่วย ก็เลย ลาป่วย ค่ะ
Why is there no subject after ก็เลย in the second half of the sentence?
ก็เลย means "so" or "therefore" and it is placed immediately before the verb of the resulting action, which here is ลาป่วย (to take sick leave). In Thai, because the subject ฉัน (I) is already known from the first part of the sentence, it is perfectly natural to drop it in the second part.
If I wanted to include the pronoun "I" in the second clause to sound more like English, where would it go?
If you want to repeat the subject, it must go before the connector, not after it. You would say ฉันก็เลยลาป่วย. You cannot translate "so I" word-for-word as ก็เลยฉัน because ก็เลย must connect directly to the verb.
What makes up the word ลาป่วย?
It is made of two separate words: ลา means "to take time off" or "to leave", and ป่วย means "sick" (which you just saw earlier in the sentence). Together, they form the specific action for "to take sick leave".
There is no past tense marker like แล้ว (already) here. How do we know the sick leave happened in the past?
Thai verbs don't change form for the past tense, and you don't strictly need a past tense marker if the context is obvious. The time word เมื่อวาน (yesterday) at the start of the sentence clearly establishes that all the actions in this statement took place in the past.
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