both
/bəʊθ/
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US voice -> both
(with plural ns , which may be preceded by a def art, a demonstrative det or a possess det ) နှစ် (ခု၊ ယောက်၊ ဖက် စသည်) လုံး။
hold sth in both hands ❍ Both books/Both the books/Both these books are expensive. ❍ Both (her) children are at college. ❍ He is blind in both eyes. ❍ There are shops on both sides of the street.
pron (က) ~ (of sb/sth)
(ရှေ့နာမ်၊ နာမ်စားကို ညွှန်းသည်။ ) နှစ်ခုလုံး၊ နှစ်ယောက်လုံး၊ နှစ်ဖက်လုံး စသည်။
He has two brothers: both live in Toronto. ❍ His parents are both dead. ❍ My sister and I both went to the party. ❍ I like these shirts. I'll take both (of them). ❍ I've invited them both. (ခ) ~ of sb/sth
(နောက်နာမ်၊ နာမ်စားကို ညွှန်းသည်။ ) နှစ်ခုလုံး၊ နှစ်ယောက်လုံး၊ နှစ်ဖက်လုံး စသည်။
Both of us want to go to the party. (Compare: We both want to go to the party. ) ❍ Both of her children have blue eyes. (Compare: Her children both have blue eyes. ) ❍ ALL
adv ~ …and… (က) … လည်း…၊ … လည်း…။ be both tired and hungry.
မောလည်းမော၊ ဆာလည်းဆာ။
(ခ) …ရော …ရော။ …ရော…ပါ။
She speaks both French and English. ပြင်သစ်ရော အင်္ဂလိပ်ပါ တတ်တယ်။
❍ Both his brother and sister are married. ❍ She was a success both as a pianist and as a conductor.
❏ have/want it/things both ways [IDM ]
လှေနံ နှစ်ဖက် နင်းသည်။ You can't have it both ways (ie You must decide on one thing or the other). ❍ ALL
- Both my parents are doctors.
- You can write on both sides of the paper.
- There were two separate projects, and both came up with the same results.
- She invited us both down for a drink.
- [both of] : Both of the leaders expressed hope that the talks would continue.
- Two companies, both of which are owned by News International
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