Lesson 2

When you construct a question, you still have to cling to the word order of general sentence. That is, you put your words in the exactly same order as other types of sentences: Subject verb object. Also, we don't use question mark in Thai. Question sentence is signaled by question-word in it, no matter where it stays. In general, it is safe to put a question-word that doesn't function as a subject at the very rear. There're plenty exceptions but adhering to this will help you much for now.

For example: Where does brother work? Brother is the subject here and must stay on the first position. Work is verb and thus stays after the subject, and the object (also put in the rear is genetive case) is replaced by a question-word "where"

Another worthy example: "Whose book is this? This book is Somchai's." You need a genitive case to construct the sentence, an grammatical object but you still have to put it behind the verb since it is in no way subject.

Also the translation is "นี่คือหนังสือของใคร - นี่คือหนังสือของสมชาย"