Breakdown of นักข่าว กำลัง ถาม คำถาม อยู่ ครับ
ครับ
polite particle (male)
ถาม
to ask
กำลัง
in the process of
คำถาม
question
อยู่
continuous aspect marker (still doing)
นักข่าว
journalist
Questions & Answers about นักข่าว กำลัง ถาม คำถาม อยู่ ครับ
How does the prefix นัก- work in the word นักข่าว?
The prefix นัก- means an expert, practitioner, or someone who does something habitually. Here it attaches to the noun ข่าว (news). So, an "expert of news" is a journalist or reporter.
I see ถาม and then คำถาม right after it. How are they different?
ถาม is the verb "to ask". คำถาม is the noun "question". Thai often creates nouns from verbs by adding a prefix. The prefix คำ- is used for words related to speech, so adding it to the verb "ask" gives us the noun form: a question.
Why are both กำลัง and อยู่ used here? Do they mean the same thing?
They work together as a pair to show an ongoing action, similar to the "-ing" ending in English. กำลัง goes before the verb (ถาม) and อยู่ goes at the end of the action phrase. While you can sometimes drop one of them in casual speech, using both makes it very clear that the action is happening right now.
The English translation says "questions" (plural). Why isn't there a plural marker in the Thai sentence?
Thai nouns don't change their form to become plural. คำถาม can mean "a question" or "questions" depending on the context. If it were important to specify that the journalist was asking many questions, you would add a quantity word like หลาย (many) or a specific number.
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