Ask whose object it is and recognise the classifiers used with books and people.
Time
18 min
Content review
Pending
Learning goals✓Ask who owns an object✓Recognise เล่ม with a book✓Listen for which person is meant
How to read the pronunciation guide
Tone marks: a = mid, à = low, â = falling, á = high, ǎ = rising. Doubled vowels are long. ŋ is the ng sound; y is as in yes. ɛ, ɔ, ə and ʉ represent distinct vowel sounds. ph, th and kh have a puff of air; th is not English th.
pay, mǎy and ŋ correspond to pai, mǎi and ng in other guides. Hyphens may separate syllables. This is a simplified reading guide, not an exact transcription of the recording. หนังสือ is shown as nǎŋsʉ̌ʉ and เขา as khǎw; naŋsʉ̌ʉ and kháw also occur in fluent speech.
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In contextCore dialogue
Listen and notice the useful phrases
Follow one book through a short exchange, then notice how ของ asks about ownership and classifiers identify a particular item or person.
Choose a phrase to move to its approximate position in the recording. Phrase timing is proportional, not word-exact.
A
ช่วยส่งหนังสือเล่มนั้นให้ผมหน่อย ได้ไหมครับ
chûay sòŋ nǎŋsʉ̌ʉ lêm nán hây phǒm nɔ̀y dâay mǎy khrápCould you hand me that book?
B
ได้ครับ
dâay khrápYes.
B
หนังสือเล่มนี้ดี
nǎŋsʉ̌ʉ lêm níi diiThis book is good.
B
ของใครครับ
khɔ̌ɔŋ khray khrápWhose is it?
A
ของเพื่อนผมครับ
khɔ̌ɔŋ phʉ̂an phǒm khrápIt belongs to my friend.
B
เพื่อนคุณชื่ออะไรครับ
phʉ̂an khun chʉ̂ʉ àray khrápWhat is your friend's name?
A
เขาชื่อจอห์นครับ
khǎw chʉ̂ʉ cɔɔn khrápHis name is John.
B
คนไหนชื่อจอห์นครับ
khon nǎy chʉ̂ʉ cɔɔn khrápWhich person is John?
Guided practice
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Which phrase asks ‘Whose is it?’
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Choose the source phrase for ‘this book’. Which word is the classifier?
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Listen. Which phrase politely asks someone to hand over that book?
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Source provenance
Small, reviewed migration
Adapted from FSI Thai Basic Course lesson 4. Classifier explanations are intentionally limited to the examples in this dialogue. Rights and native-language review remain pending.
