ขนาด

Benchmarks and Degree with ขนาด

Level 4

The examples use ขนาด for even-a-child, an ability comparison, this much heat, buying a private aircraft, and running despite rain. Read ยัง and เลย in the full displayed wording without making either compulsory in every ขนาด clause.

How It Works

1. Five Complete Contexts
ขนาดเด็กยังรู้เลย is rendered as even a child knows. ขนาดเขายังทำไม่ได้ แล้วฉันจะทำได้ยังไง compares the speaker’s prospect with another person’s inability; the selected past wording is contextual rather than marked by a Thai past tense. ร้อนขนาดนี้ ยังจะใส่เสื้อกันหนาวอีกเหรอ asks about still going to wear warm clothing in this heat; the addressee is inferred. เขารวยขนาดซื้อเครื่องบินส่วนตัวได้เลย describes being rich enough to buy a private aircraft, not necessarily a jet or a completed purchase. ขนาดฝนตกหนักเขายังออกไปวิ่ง describes going out to run despite heavy rain; a claim about determination requires context beyond the wording.

2. A Narrow Degree Witness
NIU’s complete selected ขนาด entry defines magnitude, size, dimension, form, or model and gives seven full clauses about caliber, measurements, medicine, cars, coats, stars, and overconfidence. These support size and degree senses; they do not establish a universal even construction, frequency ranking, or social register. Read the selected native examples here as complete benchmark contexts.

3. Two Requested Tasks
Copy ขนาดเขายังทำได้ for the requested wording that includes ยัง. The retained ขนาดเขาทำได้ alternative needs its own context; the second task itself displays ขนาดเขาทำไม่ได้ without ยัง, so this lesson does not require ยัง in every construction. Copy ขนาดเขาทำไม่ได้ for the requested prefix wording. The alternative เขาขนาดทำไม่ได้ is not the requested sequence; this comparison does not establish an exhaustive position rule.

4. Related Expressions
Compare แม้แต่, จน, and ถึงขนาด in their own complete contexts without a fixed formal-versus-casual hierarchy or a guaranteed strength ranking. The displayed positions of ยัง and เลย are examples, not a frequency claim or a rule requiring an immediate position.

Examples (5)

ขนาดเด็กยังรู้เลย
Even a child knows.
Word by Word: even [ขนาด] | a child | [ยัง in the complete benchmark] | knows | [particle เลย]
The speaker selects a child as the benchmark. The sentence alone does not verify the child’s knowledge or prove that information is objectively obvious.
ขนาดเขายังทำไม่ได้ แล้วฉันจะทำได้ยังไง
Even he could not do it, so how could I?
Word by Word: even | he | still | cannot do [ทำไม่ได้] | then | I | will be able to do | how
The translation selects a past inability context for the first clause and a prospective comparison for the question. The Thai wording does not force past tense or establish a measured ability ranking.
ร้อนขนาดนี้ ยังจะใส่เสื้อกันหนาวอีกเหรอ
It is this hot, and [you] are still going to wear a sweater?
Word by Word: hot | to this degree [ขนาดนี้] | still | will wear | warm clothing [เสื้อกันหนาว] | again | [question particle เหรอ]
The sentence questions a prospective clothing choice. You is inferred from the question’s context; sweater is the selected warm-clothing rendering rather than a literal shirt-prevent-cold decomposition.
เขารวยขนาดซื้อเครื่องบินส่วนตัวได้เลย
He is so rich that he can buy a private aircraft.
Word by Word: he | rich | to the degree that [ขนาด] | can buy | a private aircraft [เครื่องบินส่วนตัว] | [particle เลย]
เครื่องบินส่วนตัว is private aircraft here, without specifying a jet. The example states a buying capacity and does not prove a purchase or verified wealth.
ขนาดฝนตกหนักเขายังออกไปวิ่ง
Even though it was raining hard, he still went out for a run.
Word by Word: even though [ขนาด with the complete rain clause] | rain falls heavily | he | still | goes out to run
The selected natural translation uses past wording. The unmarked Thai sentence does not itself force a past event, prove actual weather, or establish determination as a lexical meaning.

Common Mistakes

Not copying the requested ขนาด...ยัง wording.
ขนาดเขาทำได้
ขนาดเขายังทำได้
Copy ขนาดเขายังทำได้ for the stated task. The retained ขนาดเขาทำได้ may have its own context; the comparison does not require ยัง in every ขนาด clause.
Not copying the requested clause-initial ขนาด sequence.
เขาขนาดทำไม่ได้
ขนาดเขาทำไม่ได้
Copy ขนาดเขาทำไม่ได้ for the requested prefix sequence. The retained เขาขนาดทำไม่ได้ differs from this task; no exhaustive word-order or all-context grammatical ban follows.

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ขนาดLevel 4Benchmarks and Degree with ขนาด

Learn This First

To understand ขนาด (To The Extent Of), learners should first be comfortable with basic degree markers like จน (To The Point That) and emphatic particles like แม้แต่ (Even). It is also important to understand how the particle ก็ functions to connect clauses, as it often appears in the result clause following a ขนาด phrase.

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