before
/bɪˈfɔː/
- Syllables
- 2 syllables
- Stress
- 2nd syllable stress
- Vowel
- Aw vowel
- Ending
- Final e often stays silent
bɪ - ˈfɔː -> before
(adv) မတိုင်မီက။ ယခင်က။စောစောက။ (conj) …ခင်။ (မပြုခင်၊ မဖြစ်ခင် စသည်)။ တိုင်အောင်။ အထိ။ မည့်အစား။ (prep) မတိုင်ခင်။ မတိုင်မီ။ ရှေ့မှောက်၌။ ရှေ့က။ ရှေ့လာမည့်။ အထံသို့။ မခံနိုင်တော့၍။
မတိုင်မီက။ ယခင်က။
You should have told me so before. ❍ It had been fine the day/week before (ie the previous day/week). ❍ That had happened long before (ie a long time earlier). ❍ I've seen that film before. ❍ Compare AFTER adv , AFTERWARDS
prep
၁။ မတိုင်ခင်။ မတိုင်မီ။
before lunch ❍ the day before yesterday ❍ two days before Christmas ❍ The year before last he won a gold medal, and the year before that he won the silver. ❍ She's lived there since before the war. ❍ He arrived before me. ❍ He taught English as his father had before him. ❍ Something ought to have been done before now. ❍ We'll know before long (ie soon) ❍ Turn left just before (ie before you reach) the cinema. Compare AFTER ၁
၂။ (က) ရှေ့မှောက်၌။ They knelt before the throne. ❍ Before you is a list of the points we have to deal with in this meeting. Compare BEHIND prep (ခ) ရှေ့က။ B comes before C in the alphabet. ❍ Your name is before mine on the list. ❍ ladies before gentlemen ❍ He puts his work before everything (ie regards it as more important than anything else). Compare AFTER prep ၃ (ဂ) ရှေ့လာမည့်။ The task before us is a daunting one.
၃။ (က) ရှေ့မှောက်သို့။ ရှေ့မှောက်၌။ He was brought before the judge. ❍ She said it before witnesses. ❍ He made a statement before the House of Commons.
(ခ) အထံသို့။ The proposal went before the Board.
၄။ (fml ) မခံနိုင်တော့၍။ They retreated before the enemy.
conj
၁။ …ခင်။ (မပြုခင်၊ မဖြစ်ခင် စသည်)။ Do it before you forget. ❍ Did she leave a message before she went? ❍ Before I made a decision, I thought carefully about it. ❍ Leave your key at reception before departing. Compare AFTER conj
၂။ တိုင်အောင်။ အထိ။ It may be many years before the economic situation improves. ❍ How long did it take before you started to have some success? ❍ It was some time before I realized the truth.
၃။ (fml ) မည့်အစား။ He'd starve before he stole anything (ie He'd prefer to die of starvation rather than steal food).
- I went for a run before breakfast.
- The others had got there before us.
- Won’t you have another drink before you go?
- I joined the police in 1999. Before that I was in the army.
- Two weeks before the election the first reports of the scandal began to appear.
- [before doing something] : You should seek legal advice before signing anything.
- Haven’t we met before somewhere?
- Never before in modern history has one nation dominated the world so completely.
- Several years went by before I realized that David had lied to me.
- Before I could think of a reply she walked away.
- Clean up that mess before your father sees it.
- You’d better go away before I lose my temper.
- The case went before a grand jury on December 17th.
- The question before us is whether we should allow a foreign government to control our commerce.
- The team scored an impressive victory before 76, 000 fans at Arrowhead Stadium.
- A few miles before the border we were stopped at an army checkpoint.
- Our house is just before you get to the end of the road.
- Lawrence knelt before the king.
- Before the temple gate stood a bronze statue of Buddha.
- The names are in alphabetical order, so ‘Barnes’ should come before ‘Brown’.
- A promising career stretched out before him.
- You’re still young – you have your whole life before you.
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