so that

so¹ /sǝƱ/ adv

(used before adjs and advs )
၁။ ဤမျှ။ ထိုမျှ။ ဒီလောက်။ Don't look so angry (ie as angry as you appear now). ❍ After living there for so long, he must know the town very well.
၂။ (used for emphasis) အလွန်။ သိပ်။ အရမ်း။ The girls looked so pretty in their summer dresses. ❍ I'm so glad to see you. ❍ He sat there so quietly. ❍ We have so much to do. ❍ Their attitude is so very English!
၃။ not ~ + adj/adv (+ as …) … ကဲ့သို့။ လောက်။ It wasn't so bad as last time/as we expected. ❍ The following day wasn't quite so warm. I haven't enjoyed myself so much for a long time.
၄။ ~ + adj + a/an + n (+ as sb/sth ) ကဲ့သို့။ လောက်။ He was not so quick a learner as his brother. ❍ Is this so unusual a case (ie more unusual than most)?
၅။ ~ + adj/adv + (that ) အလွန်၊ သိပ် … (သောကြောင့်)။ He was so ill (that) we had to send for a doctor. ❍ She spoke so quietly (that) I could hardly hear her. ❍ I have so many books (that) I don't know what to do with them.
၆။ ~ + adj/adv + as to do sth (ရလောက်အောင်)၊ အလွန်၊ သိပ်…။ How could you be so stupid as to believe him? ❍ (fml ) Would you be so kind as to lock the door when you leave? ❍ The weather wasn't so bad as to stop us travelling. ❍ The sentence is so vague as to be meaningless.
၇။ (infml ) ဤမျှ။ ထိုမျှ။ ဒီလောက်။ The fish was about so big (ie using one's hands to indicate the size).
adv
၁။ (ဆိုခဲ့ပြီးစကားကို ရည်ညွှန်းသော စကား)။ ထိုကဲ့သို့။ အဲဒီအတိုင်း။ ဒီလို။ ‘Is he coming?’ ‘I believe/think so. ’ ❍ I’m not sure if she'll succeed, but I certainly hope so. ❍ Will he resign? ‘It says so in the papers’. I might be away next week. If so, I won't be able to see you.
၂။ တကယ်ပဲ။ အမှန်ပဲ။ He thinks I dislike him but that simply isn’t so. ‘She's very unreliable’. ‘Is that so?’ ❍ ‘were you pleased when it happened?’ ‘Very much so. ’
၃။ (ဆိုခဲ့ပြီးစကားကို ရည်ညွှန်းသောစကား)။ ထိုကဲ့သို့။ အဲဒီလို။ ‘Is it a good play?’ ‘So the critics say. ’ ❍ George is going to help me, or so he says.
၄။ လည်းပဲ။ ထိုနည်းတူ။ He is divorced and so am I. ❍ ‘We've been to Moscow. ’ ‘So have I. ’
၅။ ဤကဲ့သို့။ ဤသို့လျှင်။ ထိုကဲ့သို့။ ထိုသို့လျှင်။ ဒီလို။ Stand with your arms out, so. ❍ So it was that he finally returned home.
၆။ (ဟုတ်ကြောင်း ပြစကား)။ အဟုတ်ပဲ။ အစစ်ပဲ။ ‘You were at school with her. ’ ‘So I was, I'd forgotten. ’ ❍ ‘They won the championship five years ago. ’ ‘So they did. ’ ❍ ‘There's a funny smell coming from somewhere. ’ ‘So there is. ’
၇။ (ကလေးများ သုံးလေ့ရှိသော အငြင်းစကား)။ ‘Your’re not telling the truth, are you?’ ‘I am, so!’
conj
၁။ ထို့ကြောင့်။ ဒါကြောင့်။ ဒါနဲ့။ The shop was closed so I couldn't get any milk. The manager was sick so I went in his place. These glassses are very expensive so please be careful with them.
၂။ ရန်။ အလို့ ငှာ။ အတွက်။ အောင်။ I gave you a map so you wouldn't get lost. ❍ She whispered to me so no one else would hear.
၃။ (နောက်ဆက်မည့် အကြောင်းအရာအတွက် နိဒါန်းပျိုး စကား)။ ဒီတော့။ ဒါနဲ့။ So now it's winter again and I'm still unemployed. ❍ So after shouting and screaming for an hour she walked out in tears.
၄။ (က) ဒီတော့။ ဒါနဲ့။ So I had a couple of drinks on the way home. What's wrong with that? (ခ) = So What?: ‘You've been drinking again. ’ ‘So?’
၅။ (စကားစမြည် တစ်ခုခုပြော ရန်အတွက် အစချီစကား)။ ကိုင်း။ ကဲ။ ဆိုပါဦး။ So, what have you been doing today?
၆။ (နိဂုံးဝါကျကို အစပျိုးရန် သုံးသော စကား)။ အဲဒီတော့။ ဒီမှာပဲ။ So, that's the end of tonight's show.
၇။ (ဆိုခဲ့ပြီးသည့် စကားအပေါ် ကောက်ချက် ချရာ၌ သုံးသောစကား)။ အဲဒီတော့ … ဟုတ်လား။ So there's nothing we can do about it?
၈။ ဒီလိုဆို။ ‘The last bus has gone. ’ ‘So, we'll have to walk. ’
၉။ (ဆိုခဲ့ပြီးစကားနှင့် ပတ်သက်သော မေးခွန်းအစချီစကား)။ အဲဒီတော့။ ‘I've just been on a long trip. ’ ‘So, how was it?’
၁၀။ ထိုနည်းတူစွာ။ အလားတူပင်။ Just as large companies are having to cut back, so small businesses are being forced to close.
❏ and so forth, and so on (and so forth) [IDM ] စသည်ဖြင့်။ စသည် စသည်။ We discussed everything: when to go, what to see and so on (and so forth).
❏ not so much sth as sth [IDM ] …ထက်။ (…ဖြစ်သည်)။ It's not so much a hobby as a career. ❍ She's not so much poor as careless with money.
❏ or so [IDM ] ခန့်။ လောက်။ နီးနီး။ There were twenty or so (ie about twenty) people there. ❍ we stayed for an hour or so.
❏ so as to do sth [IDM ] ရန်အလို့ငှာ။ ရန်အတွက်။ ဖို့။ အောင်။ He disconnected the phone so as not to be disturbed.
❏ so be it [IDM ] နေပါစေတော့။ ထားလိုက်ပါတော့။ If he doesn't want to be involved, then so be it.
❏ so many/much/long [IDM ] ဤရွေ့ဤမျှ။ ဒီလောက်။ A recipe tells you that you need so many eggs, so much milk, that you have to cook the dish for so long etc. ❍ Write on the form that you stayed so many nights at so much per night.
❏ so much sth [IDM] သက်သက်။ မျှသာ။ His promises were just so much meaningless nonsense.
❏ so much for sb/sth [IDM ] မပြောပါနဲ့တော့။ so much for our hopes of going abroad—we can forget it. ❍ So much for our new secretary—she left after three days!
❏ so much so that… [IDM ] ဒီလောက်တောင် ဖြစ်တာမို့။ ဒါကြောင့်မို့။ We are very busy—so much so that we won't be able to take time off this year.
❏ so that [IDM ]
၁။ ရည်ရွယ်၍။ ရန်အလို့ငှာ။ ရန်။ အတွက်။ ဖို့။ အောင်။ She worked hard so that everything would be ready in time.
၂။ ထို့ကြောင့်။ သို့ဖြစ်၍။ Nothing more was heard from him so that we began to wonder if he was dead.
❏ so…that [IDM ] ဤသို့လျှင်။ The programme has been so organized that none of the talks overlap.
❏ so what? [IDM ](infml ) သို့လျှင် အဘယ်နည်း။ အဲဒီတော့ ဘာဖြစ်သလဲ။ ‘He's fifteen years younger than me. ’ ‘So what?’ ❍ So what if nobody else agrees with me?’
❏ with not/without so much as sth [IDM ] …လေး တောင် မ…ဘဲ။ Off he went, without so much as a ‘goodbye’.

so²

= SOH