Demonstratives: 'นี่' and 'นั่น' — Thai Grammar

(nîinînî) — this/here, and (nân) — that/there, are used both as standalone pronouns and as determiners. As pronouns they start a sentence: (nîi kʉʉ à·rainî khue à·rainî khư à·rai) — what is this? As determiners they follow the noun + classifier: (kon nánkhon nánkhon nán) — that person.

(nán) is the post-nominal form of (nân), used after a classifier. It often works like English "the" rather than stressing distance.

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Sentences from Lingora’s Thai course

57 of the course's 500 sentences use this, the first in lesson 2. A few of them, with the words “Demonstratives: 'นี่' and 'นั่น'” is about in bold:

นี่เพื่อนของผม แอนนา เธอเป็นนักเรียน
nîi pʉ̂an kɔ̌ɔng pǒm · ɛɛn·naa · təə bpen nák·riannî phûean khǒng phǒm · aen·na · thoe pen nák·riannî phư̂an khǒ̦ng phǒm · e̩n·na · thơ pen nák·rian
This is my friend, Anna. She is a student.
Lesson 2
น้ำนี้เย็น น้ำนั้นร้อน
náam níi yen · náam nán rɔ́ɔnnám ní yen · nám nán rónnám ní yen · nám nán ró̦n
This water is cold. That water is hot.
Lesson 68
พอคิดอีกที นั่นเป็นความคิดที่ไม่ดี
pɔɔ kít ìik tii · nân bpen kwaam·kít tîi mâi diipho khít ìk thi · nân pen kwam·khít thî mâi dipho̦ khít ìk thi · nân pen kwam·khít thî mâi di
On second thought, that is a bad idea.
Lesson 338

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