He doesn't earn that much money.

Thai translation: เขาไม่ได้หาเงินได้มากมายขนาดนั้น

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English term or phrase:	He doesn't earn that much money.
Thai translation:	เขาไม่ได้หาเงินได้มากมายขนาดนั้น
Entered by:	cxp9

16:10 May 17, 2005

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English term or phrase: He doesn't earn that much money.

Is there a construction in Thai like:

maikhoi +"make/earn money"? Can we use it here? Thanks.

ying

เขาไม่ได้หาเงินได้มากขนาดนั้น

Explanation:
My translation is an alternative. "maikhoi" can be used in a sentence like "เขาหาเงินได้ไม่ค่อยมากเท่าไร"

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เขาไม่ได้หาเงินได้มากขนาดนั้น

cxp9

5 +1

รายได้ของเขาไม่ได้มีมากถึงขนาดนั้น

Ozethai

4 -1

เขาไม่ค่อยหาเงินได้มากขนาดนั้น

marilla (X)

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he doesn't earn that much money.

เขาไม่ได้หาเงินได้มากขนาดนั้น

Explanation:
My translation is an alternative. "maikhoi" can be used in a sentence like "เขาหาเงินได้ไม่ค่อยมากเท่าไร"

cxp9
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he doesn't earn that much money. รายได้ของเขาไม่ได้มีมากถึงขนาดนั้น

Explanation:
You are right, Ying, in sticking with "make money" or "earn money" as the most important concept in this sentence.

English sentences are bound by grammatical rules and sentence structures. The emphasis in the English sentence is the "he" who earns not a lot of money. But, Thai being a more "natural", user-friendly language, it is more customery for a Thai person to start the sentence in Thai with the most important thing in the sentence mentioned first: in this case, the earning.

A couple more suggestions for you to consider: Sometimes I also hear people say it this way: รายได้ของเขาใช่ว่าจะมีมากถึงขนาดนั้น Or, in a literary passage, probably: รายได้ของเขาใช่จะมีมากถึงปานนั้นก็หาไม่

Personally I believe that translating word-for-word, or structure-for-structure is good only to a certain extent. Better translations, more often than not, has to take into consideration the way the same concept is expressed in the target language, in this case, Thai.

Ozethai
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Chinese
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1 day 13 hrs confidence:

peer agreement (net): -1

he doesn't earn that much money. เขาไม่ค่อยหาเงินได้มากขนาดนั้น

Explanation:
Alternatives:
เขาไม่ค่อยหาเงินได้มากขนาดนั้น
เขาไม่ค่อยได้เงิน(มาก)ขนาดนั้น

marilla (X)
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