Whenever you use the words ไม่ใช่ in response to a question, you will usually follow with a statement that corrects whatever was wrong. Where someone is asking your name, you have a couple of options for correcting them.
Example question:
Answer type one:
Answer type two:
Note that ไม่ ใช่ mâi-châi can appear before a name (a noun) but not before ชื่อ (a verb). ไม่ได้ must be used before ชื่อ. Both ไม่ใช่ and ไม่ได้ mean not.
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