ever

ever /'evǝ(r)/ adv

၁။ (usu in negative sentences and questions, or sentences expressing doubt or condition; usu placed before the v )
တစ်ချိန်ချိန်တွင်။ တစ်ချိန်လုံး။ တစ်ကြိမ်တစ်ခါမျှ။ Nothing ever happens in this place. ❍ Don't you ever wish you were rich? ❍ If you ever visit this country, you must come and stay with us. ❍ She seldom, if ever (ie perhaps never), goes to the cinema. ❍ I hardly ever (ie rarely) see them nowadays. ❍ All he ever does is complain. ❍ (infml ) I'm never ever going to speak to her again!
သူ့ကို နောက်ဘယ်တော့မှ စကား မပြောတော့ဘူး။
၂။ (with the perfect tenses in questions) … ဖူး (သလား)။ ‘Have you ever been in a helicopter?’ ‘No, never. ’ ❍ ‘Have you ever seen an elephant?’ ‘Yes, I have. ’
၃။ (with comparatives after than or with superlatives) ခါတိုင်းထက်။ အရင်ထက်။ … ဖူးသမျှထက်။ It's raining harder than ever. ❍ This is the best work you've ever done. ❍ her best ever score ❍ He loved her more than ever.
၄။ (က) အမြဲ။ အစဉ်။ Paul, ever the optimist, agreed to give it one last try. ❍ Her novels are as popular as ever (ie as popular as they always have been). ❍ They rode off into the sunset and lived happily ever after (ie for the rest of their lives). ❍ ‘Who won?’ ‘She did, as ever. ’ ❍ He told me he would love me for ever (and ever).
(ခ) (with comparatives) တိုး၍တိုး၍။ ပို၍ပို၍။ His debts grew ever larger. See also FOREVER
၅။ ever- (in compounds) အမြဲ…။ the ever-growing problem ❍ an ever-present threat ❍ the ever-increasing cost of food.
၆။ (when, where စသည်နောက်တွင်ထား၍ အံ့ဩမှု၊ သံသယဖြစ်မှုကို အထူးပြုဖော်ပြသော စကားလုံး)။ When/Where/How ever did you lose it? ❍ What ever do you mean?
❏ did you ever (…)! [IDM ] (infml ) (အဖြေမမျှော်လင့်သော မေးခွန်း၊ အံ့ဩခြင်း၊ သံသယဖြစ်ခြင်း စသည်၌သုံးသော စကားလုံး)။ … ဖူး (ကြ) ရဲ့လား။ Did you ever hear such nonsense! ❍ Opening the palace to the public — well, I mean, did you ever!
❏ ever more [IDM ] (fml ) ပို၍ပို၍။ She became ever more nervous as the interview continued.
❏ ever since (…) [IDM ] (used as a compound conj , prep or adv ) ကတည်းက။ တုန်းကပဲ။ I've known him ever since we were at school together. ❍ She has been depressed ever since her sister's death. ❍ He was bitten as a toddler and has been afraid of dogs ever since.
❏ ever so/ever such (a) [IDM ] (infml esp Brit ) အလွန် တရာ။ အလွန့်အလွန်။ ever such a handsome man ❍ He's ever so rich.
❏ if ever there was (one) [IDM ] (infml ) (အလေးအနက် ပြုစကား)။ အဲဒါမျိုး ဖြစ်ခဲ့၊ ရှိခဲ့ဖူး တယ် ဆိုရင် (ဒါမျိုးပဲဖြစ်မယ်)။ That was a fine lunch if ever there was one! ❍ If ever there was an idiotic idea, this was it!
❏ yours ever/ever yours [IDM ] (ပေးစာအဆုံးတွင် လက်မှတ်မထိုးမီ ရေးသော စကား)။ ထာဝစဉ်သင့်။