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soon

/suːn/

US pronunciation
American sound/suːn/
soon
Syllables
1 syllable
Stress
One strong syllable
Vowel
Long vowel
Ending
Clear final sound

US voice -> soon

Myanmar meaning

(adv) မကြာမီ။ မကြာခင်။ မည့်အတူတူတော့။ လျှင်ချင်း။ သည်နှင့်တစ်ပြိုင်နက်။ ငါးခြောက်ဆိုသည်နှင့်ဖုတ်ပြီးသားဖြစ်သည်။ ၍မျှမကြာမီ။ မရှေးမနှောင်းပဲ။ သည်နှင့်မရှေးမနှောင်း။ မြန်လေကောင်းလေ။ မည့်အတူတူတော့ကကောင်းသေးသည်။ အနှေးနှင့်အမြန်ဆိုသလိုပဲ။ တစ်နေ့နေ့တစ်ချိန်ချိန်။ အချိန်ဆွဲမနေဘဲမြန်မြန်။

Full entry

soon /su:n / adv (-er, -est )

၁။ မကြာမီ။ မကြာခင်။ We'll soon be home. ❍ We'll be home quite soon now. ❍ We soon got there. ❍ He'll be here very soon. ❍ It will soon be five years since I started this job.
၂။ (sometimes in the pattern the sooner… the sooner… ) စောစော။ မြန်မြန်။ အဆောတလျင်။ ‘How soon can you be ready?’ ‘As soon as you like. ’ ❍ Must you leave so soon? ❍ She will be here sooner than you expect. ❍ The sooner you begin the sooner you'll finish (ie If you begin earlier you'll finish earlier).
❏ as soon as [IDM ] (used as a conj ) …လျှင်…ချင်း။ သည်နှင့်တစ်ပြိုင်နက်။ He left as soon as he heard the news. ❍ I'll tell him as soon as I see him.
❏ (just) as soon do sth (as do sth) [IDM ] မည့်အတူတူ တော့။ I'd (just) as soon stay at home as go for a walk. ❍ ‘Do you want to go out tonight?’ ‘I'd just as soon not. ’
❏ no sooner said than done [IDM ] ငါးခြောက်ဆိုသည်နှင့် ဖုတ်ပြီးသားဖြစ်သည်။
❏ no sooner… than… [IDM ] …၍မျှ မကြာမီ။ မရှေး မနှောင်းပဲ။ He had no sooner/No sooner had he arrived than he had to leave again.
❏ soon after (sb/sth) [IDM ] … သည်နှင့် မရှေးမနှောင်း။ He arrived soon after three. ❍ They left soon after we did. ❍ I rang for a taxi and it arrived soon after.
❏ the sooner the better [IDM ] မြန်လေကောင်းလေ။ ‘When shall I tell him?’ ‘The sooner the better. ’
❏ sooner do sth (than do sth) [IDM ] (…မည့် အတူတူ တော့) …က ကောင်းသေးသည်။ I'd sooner go for a walk than go shopping. ❍ You don't have to come—you can stay at home if you'd sooner. ❍ Go back there? I'd sooner emigrate! ❍ Will you tell him, or would you sooner (ie prefer it if) I did?
❏ sooner or later [IDM ] အနှေးနှင့်အမြန်(ဆိုသလိုပဲ)။ တစ်နေ့နေ့တစ်ချိန်ချိန်။ You should tell her, because she'll find out sooner or later.
❏ sooner rather than later [IDM ] အချိန်ဆွဲမနေဘဲ မြန်မြန်။ I hope we can sort it out sooner rather than later.

More examples
  • If we don’t leave soon, we’re going to miss our bus.
  • Mum phoned to say she’d be home soon.
  • [pretty soon] : If he doesn’t show up pretty soon, I’m leaving.
  • [soon after something] : Danny supposedly showed up at the party soon after we left.
  • How soon can this package be delivered to Brussels?
  • [as soon as possible] : Helen wants you to call her back as soon as possible.
Synonyms
almost immediately, rapidly, quickly, shortly, before long, presently, in a little while, in next to no time, a bit previous, anachronistic, anon, any minute now, badly timed, before appointed time, betimes, bright and early, by and by, coming down the pike, directly, early, early on, ere long, expeditiously, fast, fleetly, forthwith, hastily, in a minute, in a second, in a short time, in due time, in short order, in time, instantly, lickety-split, matinal, mistimed, momentarily, on short notice, on the dot, on time, out of date, overearly, oversoon, posthaste, predeveloped, preexistent, premature, previous, promptly, pronto, quick, short, speedily, too early, too late, too soon, unanticipated, unfledged, untimely
Antonyms
distant, far, late, later, never
Cross references
almost immediatelyrapidlyquicklyshortlybefore longpresentlyin a little whilein next to no timea bit previousanachronisticanonany minute nowbadly timedbefore appointed timebetimesbright and earlyby and bycoming down the pikedirectlyearlyearly onere longexpeditiouslyfastfleetlyforthwithhastilyin a minute
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