The word order is familiar, and one verb serves every tense
The phrase is assembled the way you expect: who → does what → to what. ผม ชอบ กาแฟ — "I like coffee", word for word. For example: “เมื่อ วาน ไป ตลาด” — Yesterday we went to the market. A rule from the Thai course: worked out on examples, not memorized as a wording.
How it works
The phrase is assembled the way you expect: who → does what → to what. ผม ชอบ กาแฟ (пхом чоп кафэ) — "I like coffee", word for word.
What Thai does not do is touch the verb. No person, no number, no tense is written on it: ไป (пай) is "I go", "you go" and "went" at once. Time is named by words: เมื่อ วาน (мыа ван) — yesterday, พรุ่ง นี้ (пхрунг ний) — tomorrow, the particle จะ (cha) — the future, แล้ว (laeo) — already happened.
So the table below is not a list of forms but a promise. Change the person any way you like: the verb stays the same.
Table
| Who | ไป (to go) | กิน (to eat) |
|---|---|---|
| ผม — I | ไป | กิน |
| คุณ — you | ไป | กิน |
| เขา — he | ไป | กิน |
| เรา — we | ไป | กิน |
By example
- เมื่อ วาน ไป ตลาดмыа ван пай талатYesterday we went to the market
- พรุ่ง นี้ เจอกันпхрунг ний джёканSee you tomorrow
- ผม ต้อง ไป ทำ งานпхом тонг пай тхам нганI have to go to work
How the rule settles in your head
A rule is not memorized from an explanation. It is memorized from an attempt to use it and a mistake — that is why the app delivers it mixed in with words, not as a separate lesson: it resurfaces exactly where you forgot it.
Frequently asked
Thai sentence word order?
The phrase is assembled the way you expect: who → does what → to what. ผม ชอบ กาแฟ — "I like coffee", word for word.
Do Thai verbs conjugate?
What Thai does not do is touch the verb. No person, no number, no tense is written on it: ไป is "I go", "you go" and "went" at once. Time is named by words: เมื่อ วาน — yesterday, พรุ่ง นี้ — tomorrow, the particle จะ (cha) — the future, แล้ว (laeo) — already happened.
How to say past tense in Thai?
What Thai does not do is touch the verb. No person, no number, no tense is written on it: ไป is "I go", "you go" and "went" at once. Time is named by words: เมื่อ วาน — yesterday, พรุ่ง นี้ — tomorrow, the particle จะ (cha) — the future, แล้ว (laeo) — already happened.
Are there tenses in Thai?
What Thai does not do is touch the verb. No person, no number, no tense is written on it: ไป is "I go", "you go" and "went" at once. Time is named by words: เมื่อ วาน — yesterday, พรุ่ง นี้ — tomorrow, the particle จะ (cha) — the future, แล้ว (laeo) — already happened.
What does it look like in a Thai example sentence?
“เมื่อ วาน ไป ตลาด” (мыа ван пай талат) — Yesterday we went to the market. A rule is easier to test on sentences like this than to memorize as a wording: what surfaces in conversation is the sentence.