Grammar Drill
Using the Negative with เรียกว่า
Follow along with this expansion drill, and you will soon understand how to use Thai verbs in the negative form by adding the words ไม่ได้ in front of them, to mean not. Note how we change the form of the sentence only slightly to have a completely different meaning.
นี่เรียกว่าอะไร
nêe rîak-wâa à-rai
What's this called?
นี่ เรียกว่า ปากกา
nêe rîak-wâa bpàak-gaa
This is called pen.