often
/ˈɒft(ə)n/
US pronunciation
American sound/ˈɒft(ə)n/
often
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of - ten -> often
Myanmar meaning
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often /'ɒfn, 'ɒftǝn; US 'ↄ:fn/ adv (-er, -est )
၁။ ခဏခဏ။ မကြာမကြာ။ မကြာခဏ။ We often go there. ❍ We have often been there. ❍ We've been there quite often. ❍ It very often rains here in April. ❍ I hope to visit you oftener in future. ❍ How often (ie At what intervals) do the buses run?
၂။ ယေဘုယျအားဖြင့်။ Old houses are often damp.
❏ as often as not; more often than not [IDM ] မကြာခဏ။ မကြာမကြာ။ Even when it's fine the buses are late more often than not.
❏ every so often [IDM ] တစ်ခါတစ်ရံ။ တစ်ခါတစ်ခါ။ ရံဖန်ရံခါ။
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- Often, students with family problems have difficulties at school.
- Boredom often leads to poor behaviour.
- The home is often the most likely place to have an accident.
- [fairly/quite often] : I’ve found that it’s quite often impossible to park in town.
- [very often] : Very often it turns out that the student hasn’t understood the question.
- [often enough] : I’ve already told you not to argue often enough.
- I’ve been swimming twice as often as I did last year.
- [how often?] : How often do you eat meat?
- [fairly/quite often] : I go to the gym quite often.
Synonyms
frequently, over and over again, time and again, repeatedly, habitually, regularly, a lot, a number of times, again and again, circadian, continuously, daily, day by day, day-to-day, diurnal, every so often, from day to day, generally, many a time, most often, much, oftentimes, ofttimes, once a day, once again, once daily, over and over, recurrently, time after time, usually
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