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How to say who wrote this?
in Thai
เรื่องนี้ใครแต่ง
rûeang níi krai dtàeng
who wrote this?
Add ครับ (kráp) if you are a man or ค่ะ (kâ) if you are a woman. It makes the sentence polite, and Thais always use it.
แต่ง is 'compose' for books, poems and songs.
- Where
- conversation
- Register
- polite
Words inside it
From the same situation: Literature and classics
- วรรณคดีclassical literature, the classics
- วรรณกรรมliterature, literary works (any period)
- ร้อยแก้วprose
- ร้อยกรองverse, poetry
- กวีpoet
- บทกวีpoem
- กลอนklon (the commonest Thai verse form)
- โคลงkhlong (verse form with tone-mark rules)
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