เท่าไหร่ก็ได้

Any Amount Is Fine

Level 2

เท่าไหร่ก็ได้ accepts whatever amount is being discussed. กินเท่าไหร่ก็ได้ offers as much food as wanted; รอได้นานเท่าไหร่ก็ได้ expresses willingness to wait for any duration.

How It Works

Food And Payment
กินเท่าไหร่ก็ได้ means eat as much as you want. จ่ายเท่าไหร่ก็ได้ครับ means you can pay whatever amount you like; ครับ adds politeness. Read the permission with the situation in which it is offered, rather than treating the phrase as an automatic agreement to every possible commercial charge.

Time And Degree
รอได้นานเท่าไหร่ก็ได้ expresses willingness or ability to wait for any duration. นาน identifies duration, and รอได้ says can wait. แพงเท่าไหร่ก็ได้ accepts whatever degree of expense is under discussion. Translate duration as how long and degree as how expensive, rather than using a count-of-items meaning for both.

Taking An Amount
เอาไปเท่าไหร่ก็ได้ means take as much as you want. The item being taken is understood from the situation. This phrase alone does not specify whether the item is measured or counted.

Acceptance Or A Question
For the meaning pay whatever amount you like, keep ก็ in จ่ายเท่าไหร่ก็ได้. จ่ายเท่าไหร่ได้ can instead ask how much someone can pay; that different meaning does not make the whole sentence ungrammatical.

Counting People
เอากี่คนก็ได้ expresses that any number of people is acceptable, using คน with กี่. See the separate กี่ + Classifier entry for its counting pattern. Do not turn this example into a universal ban on เท่าไหร่ with every countable item.

Examples (5)

  1. กินเท่าไหร่ก็ได้

    Eat as much as you want.

    Word by Word: eat | whatever amount | is permitted

    The sentence offers permission to eat an amount chosen by the person eating. No particular venue or measured consumption limit is stated.

  2. จ่ายเท่าไหร่ก็ได้ครับ

    You can pay whatever amount you like.

    Word by Word: pay | whatever amount | is acceptable | polite particle

    The amount to pay is left open in this offer. ครับ adds politeness; it does not specify a fixed price.

  3. รอได้นานเท่าไหร่ก็ได้

    I can wait for as long as it takes.

    Word by Word: wait | can | long | whatever duration | is acceptable

    รอได้ says can wait. นาน makes เท่าไหร่ refer to duration, so the relevant question is how long.

  4. แพงเท่าไหร่ก็ได้

    However expensive it is, it is fine.

    Word by Word: expensive | whatever degree | is acceptable

    แพง names the quality being accepted: expense. The phrase accepts its degree in the situation being discussed.

  5. เอาไปเท่าไหร่ก็ได้

    Take as much as you want.

    Word by Word: take | away | whatever amount | is permitted

    เอาไป means take away. The object and the available amount come from the situation, rather than an explicitly stated noun in this sentence.

Common Mistakes

  • Keeping ก็ For The Meaning Any Amount Is Fine

    จ่ายเท่าไหร่ได้
    จ่ายเท่าไหร่ก็ได้

    To say pay whatever amount you like in this task, choose จ่ายเท่าไหร่ก็ได้. The alternative จ่ายเท่าไหร่ได้ can ask how much someone can pay. It does not express the intended acceptance meaning, though it can be a grammatical question.

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เท่าไหร่ก็ได้Level 2Any Amount Is Fine

Learn This First

To understand 'เท่าไหร่ก็ได้' (any amount), you need to know the question word for amount (เท่าไหร่), how the particle 'ก็' functions as a linker, and how 'ได้' is used to indicate that something is permissible or possible.

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