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could

/kəd/

US pronunciation
American sound/kəd/
could
Syllables
1 syllable
Stress
One strong syllable
Vowel
Schwa vowel
Ending
Clear final sound

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Myanmar meaning

(v) (စိတ် ကသိ ကအောက် ဖြစ်သည့်သဘောကို ဖော်ပြသောစကား)။ နိုင်သား နှင့်။ ကောင်းတာပေါ့။ (သည်းမခံနိုင်လုနီးပါး ဖြစ်ကြောင်းပြ စကား)။ စိတ်ကုန်လိုက်တာ၊ ကုန်းတောင်အော်လိုက်ချင်တယ်။ (modal) နိုင်ခဲ့

Full entry

could1 /kǝd; strong form kƱd/ modal v (neg could not ; contracted form couldn't /'kƱdnt/)

၁။ (ခွင့်တောင်းရာ၊ ခွင့်ပန်ရာ၌ သုံးသော အမေးစကား)။ တစ်ဆိတ်လောက်…ပါရစေ။ Could I use your phone, please? ❍ Could I borrow your bicycle? ❍ Could we come round next week? ❍ MAY
မေတ္တာရပ်ခံရာ၌သုံးသော အမေး စကား)။ တစ်ဆိတ်လောက်…နိုင်မလား။
Could you babysit for us on Friday? ❍ Could you just type one more letter before you go? ❍ Do you think I could have a glass of water? Compare WOULD.
၃။ (ဖြစ်နိုင်ဖွယ်အလားအလာကို ဖော်ပြသော စကား)။ …နိုင်တယ်။ You could be right, I suppose. ❍ My wife's in labour— the baby could arrive at any time. ❍ Don't worry— they could have just forgotten to phone. ❍ You couldn't have left it on the bus, could you? ❍ ‘Have some more chocolate mousse. ’ ‘Oh, I couldn't, thank you (ie I'm too full)’. ❍ MIGHT
၄။ (သင့်ကြောင်း၊ အပ်ကြောင်း ဖော်ပြသောစကား)။ …လျှင် ကောင်းမည်။
We could write a letter to the director. ❍ You could always try his home number.
၅။ (စိတ် ကသိ ကအောက် ဖြစ်သည့်သဘောကို ဖော်ပြသောစကား)။ …နိုင်သား နှင့်။ …ကောင်းတာပေါ့။ They could have let me know they were going to be late!
၆။ (infml ) (သည်းမခံနိုင်လုနီးပါး ဖြစ်ကြောင်းပြ စကား)။ I'm so fed up I could scream! စိတ်ကုန်လိုက်တာ၊ ကုန်းတောင်အော်လိုက်ချင်တယ်။

could2

pt of CAN

More examples
  • Renee could already read when she was four.
  • In the distance I could see a cloud of smoke.
  • Could I have a glass of water?
  • Could you post this letter for me?
  • I wonder if we could borrow your lawnmower?
  • We could still win – the game isn’t over yet.
  • In a situation like this, anything could happen.
  • [could easily] : You could easily lose your way in the dark.
  • You could come and stay with us.
  • [could always] : You could always sell the cottage if you need some extra cash.
  • How could you be so cruel!
  • They could at least have said they were sorry.
  • It’s all Helen’s fault. I could strangle her!
  • When I heard the news, I was so happy I could have cried.
Synonyms
might, can, possibly will, may well, may perhaps, may possibly, be capable of, be equal to, be up to, be within one's area, be within one's control, can do, cut the mustard, cutting the mustard, have it made, having it made, lie in one's power, make it, make the grade, making the grade, may, take care of
Cross references
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