EP.1 | More, more than | กว่า
By My Thai Teacher
Summary
## Key takeaways - **Gua has two main meanings.**: The Thai word 'gua' can be used for direct comparison between two things, like 'A is greater than B'. It also has a secondary meaning related to approximation or estimation. [01:25] - **Comparing things in Thai: 'Gua'.**: To compare two things in Thai, you can use the structure 'I talk, then you right,' essentially stating the two elements to be compared. [02:35] - **Using 'amount' for estimations.**: The word 'amount' (amount) followed by 'gua' can be used for estimations related to age, time, height, or size, indicating a less precise figure. [04:03] - **Certainty levels with 'Gua'.**: Using 'gua' alone suggests about 50% certainty, while using 'gua' with another word implies a lower certainty, perhaps around 20%, indicating an estimate. [06:29] - **Example: Height comparison.**: The phrase 'I'm taller than you' is a direct comparison where 'gua' would be used in Thai to indicate the taller subject. [01:37]
Topics Covered
- Thai grammar lacks 'to be' and comparison rules.
- Gua is used for estimations of age, height, and time.
- Gua vs. Kra: Nuances in Thai certainty.
- The Karen tribe's belief in ghosts influences neck adornments.
Full Transcript
so we just i talk
then u right
so we have two things i is a right
u is a b
so the first one have you learned about
gua
wait wait let me i need to hide
something
okay here
i need to hide the answer first
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okay okay so have you learned about gua
yes oh really so
okay can you give me some random
okay um let me think your time
uh sasha shopkins
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uh-huh
oh yeah yeah you use the right things
yeah so
basically gua but there's two meanings
actually so the first one is used to
compare
things like a and b right and the second
one is
means about do you know what about
no i don't think i've ever used it back
about okay so we can learn together
so um i am taller than you okay
like let's look at number one i'm taller
then
can you help me to translate in thai
um maybe let's try
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okay sure yeah we can see the answer
so i say that
that's right okay okay exactly exactly
so in thai so this is gram uh english
right
i am older than you but in thai we don't
have
um verb to be
right right and then we don't have like
er like compare things rules like that
so we just i talk
then u right right
so we have two things i is a right
u is a b so we compare two things right
oh
b okay this is easy right
right i have yeah
okay so uh
if i want to say like i've been living
in thailand for 10 years
maybe you want to try to translate this
sentence
okay um
okay we can try this okay okay so
uh just now you use brahman right
brahman
is mean about you that's right and this
one
gua how to use squad so we can see this
so
i've been living in thailand for 10
years
oh i yeah i've heard that before
really yeah okay cool so let me
change some color
so i have so we use amount
how to right amount like this
great okay like this so
about here focus we can use for like
age and
time okay maybe one day
one hour okay a month one years
and also what else height like maybe
i'm tally i'm tall about like 100
something
and also size and some
as well okay yeah
do you know how different between
uh okay i'm going to say two sentences
can you make to fire different so the
first one is
chan
sorry um
the one with gua and the one with aqua
right
uh-huh so you don't maybe it's like it's
it's not definite
it's like it's not it's an estimate
maybe i don't know
okay so if you call
uh jose cross gua don't use gua
chan you thai monsieur is mean like
you are like so sure about these things
yeah
i've been living in china for 10 years
but okay
if you squash me
but like you're not that sure maybe
something like
10 years and one month two months like
that
okay okay so that can use with like
maybe someone asks you oh
how old are you and you can say oh i'm
like
18 something like that okay
it's actually not uh uh like if someone
asked me like
oh how are you hey how old are you
rightfully you can like i can say like
sit back oh yeah i've heard that
okay oh you can use like
okay like how different right it's
actually the same but if you want to
know the
different i can explain so if you use
the word only one
gua is mean like um
you are fifty percent percent sure but
if you
like use the word guys mean like twenty
percent sure like list
oh okay yeah oh okay like that
okay
okay this one is like english it's so
easy right and this one is
why amount plus graph
okay so now is uh we have some
send a picture i want you to um
practice so can you help me to
use the first squad comparison
but first of all let me talk let me talk
about this one
so have you seen this before makeup
go ahead
oh my god
yeah i think in english it's karen karen
tribe
okay yeah let me talk about like some
short
things uh current tribe originally from
myanmar
like a long time ago they came like the
immigrant to thailand
and then most of them believe in goals
so they really are fade up girls so they
think that sometimes ghosts will
kill them by the neck or they put that
things to protect their necks
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we say longer okay
okay do you know the word long
um yo yup
uh yo
um
okay one more time
i'm sorry can you say it one more time
call okay yeah
um
very good okay that's it
yeah oh we have another one oh by the
way like
uh for the people who are watching us
you guys can like make a sentence like
this one
the first one and the second one like
this
and this and then and you guys can
comment below
and then i will like check letters so
this time
can you help me to make a sentence using
the word guar for this one number two
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remember what will you use maybe size
maybe
range maybe height or years timing
okay um maybe
hope how
ah
that's right that's right yeah
you did it okay oh so
you understand it okay cool
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you
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