Breakdown of คน แก่ ร่างกาย มักจะ อ่อนแอ ครับ
ครับ
polite particle (male)
คน
person
ร่างกาย
body (physical)
มักจะ
tend to / usually (expresses tendency)
แก่
old (living things, people)
อ่อนแอ
weak
Questions & Answers about คน แก่ ร่างกาย มักจะ อ่อนแอ ครับ
This lesson is about ไหว. Why don't we use ไม่ไหว (cannot handle it) here instead of อ่อนแอ (weak)?
ไหว is an auxiliary verb used after an action verb to show you have the strength or endurance to do that specific action (like walking or lifting). อ่อนแอ is an adjective describing the general state of being physically or mentally weak. If you wanted to say an old person "cannot walk anymore," you would use ไม่ไหว (e.g., เดินไม่ไหว). But to just say their body is "weak," อ่อนแอ is the correct word.
Since แก่ means old, can I use it to talk about an old car or an old house?
No, แก่ is only used for living things (like people and animals) getting older in age. If you want to talk about old objects, such as a car, building, or book, you must use the word เก่า instead.
The sentence uses มักจะ for "often". Could I just put บ่อยๆ at the end of the sentence instead?
They are similar but have different focuses. บ่อยๆ means an action happens frequently (like "I go to the gym often"). มักจะ, which is placed before a verb or adjective, translates closer to "tends to" or "usually" (as in "Old people tend to be weak"). Because this sentence describes a general characteristic or tendency rather than a repeated action, มักจะ is much more natural here.
The sentence literally starts with "Old people body...". Is it normal to put these two nouns right next to each other without a word for "their" or "have"?
Yes! Thai often uses a "topic-comment" structure. คนแก่ (old people) is established as the topic you are bringing up. The rest of the sentence, ร่างกายมักจะอ่อนแอ (bodies tend to be weak), is the comment that gives information about that topic. You don't need a word for "have" or "their" because the relationship is clear from the context.
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