Perfect tense

Form

S + V + O (or complements) + “LAEW” (áÅéÇ)

S+ V + “LAEW” (áÅéÇ)

S = subject (noun)

feeling V = verb show your feeling

O = object (noun)

LAEW = done, finish (THAI)

1. Write down your present tense follow by LAEW (check my “present tense ” lesson)

2. Subject can be noun or noun phase

3.   Complements can be Adj. or Adv. It will follow noun- I talked about that a month ago (diff. from your Adj and Adv. )

4.   We don’t need article a , an ,the – if it only one thing we will know by putting nothing,if it more than one we will mention the number

5. Don’t have the preposition of time

If you use feeling verb such as like,love,hate,hungry,angry,shy. This sentence will not be “perfect tense or past tense” in English but it is in “perfect tense or past tense”  thai. Let see thai perspective on “PAST”

Fay:    I am home darling (in thai we say “I have been home already”)

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Chan klub ma baan laew teerak

(It show as past as she got home already-in Thai sentence Verb is more important than time and subject)

Russ:  I am in the kitchen, Fay

Fay:    oh, are you cooking?

Russ:  yes, I am

Fay:    I am hungry

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Chan  heu  laew

(hungry is feeling and she already feel it and still then we use laew-as perfect tense)

Russ:  It is almost done

Good job, Fay

u r an excellent teacher naja

this is very good post! My favorite Thai teacher has done a good job again! à¡è§ÃÒ¡ æ

I will comment more after i finsh Fay's dinner. äÃèÃÂèÒ§¹Ñé¹ à¢Ò ¨Ãà»ç¹ ¨Ãâ¡Ã¸

Nice, thanks Fay. Just wondering when we might get some translations of the sweet sms messages ;-)

Neo: let i pass this difficult week ...i can help you on that

Khob khun kha. Khun kroo ;D

Very well done, especially using the colors to show which word is which.

Great job!

thai does not have a perfect tense.

there is a "completed or finished" sense to a phrase or a sentence, which is determined by the correct usage of a word (already) laew.

Thai language does not have tenses. Words never change their meaning once you learn them. It is misleading to talk about Thai without these sorts of distinctions, IMHO

Interesting, no past tense or future, like living in the "now"? Meditation like?

One of your more interesting lessons, Fay. I have not used laew in that way, but will in the future.