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Basic Sentence Structure

SVO, no inflection

Thai is SVO with no inflection

Verbs and nouns never change form.

💬 Examples
ผมกินข้าว
phǒm gin khâao
I eat rice.
📝 Subject + verb + object
เขาอ่านหนังสือ
kháo àan nǎng-sʉ̌ʉ
He/She reads a book.
📝 No verb conjugation
No articles, no plural marking, no gender

Nouns are bare.

💬 Examples
หมา
mǎa
a dog / the dog / dogs
📝 Bare noun (number from context)
ผมมีหนังสือ
phǒm mii nǎng-sʉ̌ʉ
I have a book / books.
📝 No 'a/the', no plural -s
Subjects/objects are dropped when clear

Pronoun-dropping is common.

💬 Examples
กินแล้ว
gin láew
(I've) eaten already.
📝 Subject omitted
ไปไหน
bpai nǎi
Where (are you) going?
📝 Pronoun dropped