if

if / Çf / conj

၁။ (က) လျှင်။ က။ If you have finished eating you may leave the table. ❍ I'll only stay if you offer me more money. ❍ If (it is) necessary I can come at once. ❍ You can stay for the weekend if you like. ❍ If anyone calls, tell them I'm not at home. ❍ (fml ) If the patient should vomit, turn him over with his head to the side.
(ခ) လျှင်။ က။ ခဲ့လျှင်။ ခဲ့သော်။ If you learned word-processing you would easily find a job. ❍ If he were here I could explain to him myself. ❍ If I was a man they would have given me the job. ❍ Would she tell us the truth if we asked her? ❍ If you liked (ie With your approval) I could ask my brother to look at your car. ❍ They would have been here by now if they'd caught the early train. ❍ I wouldn't have believed it possible, if I hadn't seen it happen. ❍ UNLESS
၂။ လျှင်။ သောအခါ။ If metal gets hot it expands. ❍ She glares at me if I go near her desk.
၃။ (fml ) လျှင်။ If you will sit down for a few moments (ie Please sit down and) I'll tell the manager you're here. ❍ If you would care to leave your name, we'll contact you as soon as possible.
၄။ ရှိ၊ မရှိ။ ဟုတ်၊ မဟုတ် စသည်။ Do you know if he's married? ❍ I wonder if I should wear a hat. ❍ He couldn't tell if she was laughing or crying. ❍ Listen to the tune — see if you can remember the words.
၅။ လျှင်။ I am sorry if I disturbed you. ❍ I'd be grateful if you would keep it a secret. ❍ Do you mind if I turn the radio off?
၆။ (also even if ) သော်လည်း။ သော်မှ။ If he said that, he didn't expect you to take it personally. ❍ Even if you saw him pick up the money, you can't be sure he stole it. ❍ Even if he does invite me, I still won't go.
၇။ သို့ဖြစ်သော် ငြားလည်း။ သို့ဖြစ်သည့်တိုင်အောင်။ It was thoughtless if well-meaning. ❍ He's a real gentleman, if a little pompous at times.
၈။ (အံ့အားသင့်ခြင်း၊ တန်ဖိုးထားခြင်း၊ ဝမ်းနည်းခြင်း စသည်ကိုဖော်ပြရန် ပဋိသေဓပုဒ် နှင့် အထူးသဖြင့် တွဲ၍အသုံးပြုရသည်။ ) Well, if it isn’t my old friend Bob Thomson — what a coincidence!
၉။ (ဆိုလိုရင်းကို မပြောမီ ပဋိသန္ဓာရစကားတွင် သုံးလေ့ရှိသည်။ ) If you ask me, she's too scared to do it. ❍ If you think about it, those children must be grown-up by now. ❍ If you remember, Mary was always fond of animals.
၁၀။ (ပဋိသန္ဓာရစကားတွင် ထည့်သွင်း အသုံးပြုလေ့ ရှိသည်။ ) If I may make a suggestion, perhaps we could begin a little earlier next week.
n (infml ) မသေချာသောအချက်။ If he wins — and it's a big if — he'll be the first Englishman to win for twenty years. ❍ Now I'm not having any ifs and buts — it's cold showers for everyone before breakfast tomorrow.
❑ if and when [IDM ] အကယ်၍များ။ If and when we ever meet again I hope he remembers to thank me.
❑ if anything [IDM ] ပြောမယ်ဆိုရင်တော့။ I'd say he was more like his father, if anything. ❍ He's not thin — if anything he's on the plump side.
❑ if I were you [IDM ] ငါသာဆိုရင်။ If I were you I'd start looking for another job.
❑ if not [IDM ]
၁။ ဒါမှမဟုတ်ရင်။ I'll go if you're ging — if not I'd rather stay at home. ❍ If you've finished we can have a coffee together — if not, I'll have one on my own.
၂။ ဒါမှမဟုတ်ရင်။ Are you ready? If not, I'm going without you.
၃။ မဟုတ်ရင်တောင်မှ။ They cost thousands if not millions of pounds to build.
၄။ မဟုတ်သော်မှ။ မဖြစ်သော်လည်း။ It was a good if not very imaginative performance.
❑ if only [IDM ]
၁။ အကယ်၍သာ။ တကယ်လို့သာ။ If only I were rich. ❍ If only I could swim. ❍ If only I knew her name. ❍ If only it would stop raining.
၂။ အကယ်၍သာ။ တကယ်လို့သာ။ If only he'd remembered to post that letter. ❍ If only I had gone by taxi.
❑ only if [IDM ] မှသာလျှင်။ Only if a teacher has given permission is a student allowed to leave the room. ❍ Only if the red light comes on is there any danger to employees.