ความที่

Owing to the Fact That

Level 5

ความที่ presents the following clause as a fact or circumstance. In this lesson, that circumstance explains what follows. The form ด้วยความที่ appears in the house-distance example.

How It Works

1. Turn A Clause Into A Fact Or Circumstance
ความที่ is a clausal nominalizer: it lets a clause function as a fact or circumstance. In these examples, the writer uses that circumstance to explain an outcome.

2. Follow The Examples
ความที่เขาเป็นคนขยัน presents his diligence as the reason for success. ด้วยความที่บ้านอยู่ไกล presents the distance from the house as the reason for waking early. The first clause is followed by a result with จึง or เลย in the displayed sentences.

3. A Circumstance Need Not Be Permanent
Being far away or being a child supplies a circumstance in these examples. The construction does not require an unchanging personal trait. The selected facts explain an outcome; they do not make that outcome inevitable.

4. Find The Understood Person
ความที่เป็นเด็ก has no written subject inside that clause. In the complete displayed sentence, เขา supplies the person understood to be a child. This is a reading of that sentence, rather than permission to omit any subject in any context.

5. Compare Related Nominalizers
การที่ also forms a nominalized clause. Which form fits depends on the full predicate and meaning. Do not reduce the choice to a blanket action-versus-state rule, or assume the forms can replace each other everywhere.

Examples (4)

ความที่เขาเป็นคนขยัน เขาจึงประสบความสำเร็จอย่างรวดเร็ว
Owing to the fact that he is a hard-working person, he achieved success quickly.
Word by Word: Fact that he is person diligent, he therefore meet success way fast.
His diligence is presented as the reason for his success. The wording does not require the cause to be an unchanging trait.
ด้วยความที่บ้านอยู่ไกล ผมเลยต้องตื่นแต่เช้าทุกวัน
Because of the fact that my house is far away, I have to wake up early every day.
Word by Word: With fact that house located far, I so must wake up since morning every day.
ด้วยความที่ presents the distance from the house as the reason for waking early in this sentence.
ความที่เธอเป็นคนแปลกหน้า จึงไม่มีใครกล้าเข้าไปคุยด้วย
On account of her being a stranger, no one dared to go and talk to her.
Word by Word: Fact that she is person stranger, therefore not have anyone dare enter go talk with.
The state of being a 'stranger' is nominalized as the reason for the social outcome.
ความที่เป็นเด็ก เขาจึงยังไม่เข้าใจเรื่องนี้
Owing to being a child, he doesn't understand this matter yet.
Word by Word: Fact that be child, he therefore yet not understand matter this.
In this complete sentence, เขา is understood as the child in ความที่เป็นเด็ก. The clause itself has no written subject.

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ความที่Level 5Owing to the Fact That

Learn This First

To understand 'ความที่', you first need to know how 'ความ' turns qualities into nouns and how 'ที่' links clauses. It is a more specific version of 'การที่' that focuses on a quality or state as a cause.

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