{"id":287,"date":"2011-01-10T00:14:39","date_gmt":"2011-01-10T00:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/thai\/?p=287"},"modified":"2011-01-10T00:14:39","modified_gmt":"2011-01-10T00:14:39","slug":"thai-possessive-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/thai\/thai-possessive-words\/","title":{"rendered":"Thai Possessive Words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How do you say something belongs to you, or someone else, in Thai? It\u2019s actually very simple when using the word <strong>\u0e02\u0e2d\u0e07<\/strong> (kawng5), meaning \u2018belongs to\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The proper grammar order is:<\/p>\n<p>noun -&gt; belongs to -&gt; noun<\/p>\n<p>For example,<\/p>\n<p>\u0e1a\u0e49\u0e32\u0e19 \u0e19\u0e35\u0e49 -&gt; \u0e02\u0e2d\u0e07 -&gt; \u0e40\u0e02\u0e32 \u00a0&#8211; This house belongs to him.<\/p>\n<p>In many instances it\u2019s obvious so you can leave out <strong>\u0e02\u0e2d\u0e07<\/strong>, for example,<\/p>\n<p>\u0e1a\u0e49\u0e32\u0e19\u0e40\u0e02\u0e32 \u2013 His house.<\/p>\n<p>where the first noun is owned by the second noun.<\/p>\n<p>A few more examples:<\/p>\n<p>\u0e1a\u0e49\u0e32\u0e19\u0e19\u0e35\u0e49\u0e02\u0e2d\u0e07\u0e43\u0e04\u0e23\u0e04\u0e23\u0e31\u0e1a? Whose house is this?<\/p>\n<p>\u0e02\u0e2d\u0e07\u0e40\u0e02\u0e32\u0e04\u0e23\u0e31\u0e1a It is his house.<\/p>\n<p>\u0e1a\u0e49\u0e32\u0e19\u0e02\u0e2d\u0e07\u0e1c\u0e21 It is my house.<\/p>\n<p>\u0e02\u0e2d\u0e07\u0e42\u0e25\u0e01 of (or belongs to) the world<\/p>\n<p>Now, the word \u0e02\u0e2d\u0e07 has one other meaning\u00a0 &#8211; belongings, stuff, things, possessions. Here are a few examples so you don\u2019t get the two meanings confused.<\/p>\n<p>\u0e17\u0e34\u0e49\u0e07\u0e02\u0e2d\u0e07\u0e19\u0e35\u0e49\u0e43\u0e2b\u0e49\u0e2b\u0e19\u0e48\u0e2d\u0e22\u0e04\u0e23\u0e31\u0e1a Please throw away this stuff.<\/p>\n<p>\u0e40\u0e01\u0e47\u0e1a\u0e02\u0e2d\u0e07 Gather (or pick\/clean up) the things.<\/p>\n<p>\u0e02\u0e2d\u0e07\u0e19\u0e35\u0e49\u0e2a\u0e01\u0e1b\u0e23\u0e01\u0e21\u0e32\u0e01 This stuff is very dirty.<\/p>\n<p>\u0e0a\u0e2d\u0e1a\u0e02\u0e2d\u0e07\u0e41\u0e1b\u0e25\u0e01 I like strange things.<\/p>\n<p>One more example, as this can trip some people up. This is a seemingly ambiguous statement, but in reality means the same thing no matter which \u0e02\u0e2d\u0e07 definition you use:<\/p>\n<p>\u0e19\u0e35\u0e48\u0e02\u0e2d\u0e07\u0e43\u0e04\u0e23 \u2013 Whose stuff is this? (or) Who does this belong to?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A simple Thai tutorial on how to declare one thing belongs to something or someone else.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[10208],"tags":[13286],"class_list":["post-287","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-beginner","tag-kawng-possessive"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/thai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/thai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/thai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/thai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/thai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/thai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":289,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/thai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions\/289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/thai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/thai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/thai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}