strange
/streɪn(d)ʒ/
- Syllables
- 1 syllable
- Stress
- One strong syllable
- Vowel
- Short i vowel
- Ending
- Final e often stays silent
US voice -> strange
strange /streÇndʒ/ adj (-r , -st )
၁။ ထူးခြားသော။ ဆန်းပြားသော။ It's strange we haven't heard from him. ❍ He wears the strangest clothes. ❍ She has some very strange ideas. ❍ I find their attitude strange. ❍ It feels strange to be visiting the place again after all these years.
၂။ ~ (to be) သူစိမ်းတစ်ရံဆံဖြစ်သော။ ထူးဆန်းသော။ စိမ်းသော။
a strange country/town/neighbourhood ❍ Never accept lifts from strange men. ❍ At first the place was strange to me.
၃။ နေမထိထိုင်မသာဖြစ်သော။ It was terribly hot and I started to feel strange.
၄။ အနေကျပ်သော။ အနေ ကျုံ့သော။ She felt very strange among these people she had never met before.
❏ strangely adv ထူးထူးခြားခြား။ အံ့ဖွယ်သရဲ။ She's been acting very strangely lately. ❍ The house was strangely quiet. ❍ It turned out we'd been at school together, strangely enough. strangeness n [U]
❏ strange to say… [IDM ] အံ့ဩဖွယ်ကောင်းသည်မှာ။ Strange to say, I don't really enjoy television.
- By a strange coincidence, we were both staying at the same hotel.
- [it is/seems strange that] : It seemed strange that she would leave so early.
- [the strange thing is] : The strange thing is, I was the only one there.
- [for some strange reason] : For some strange reason, she didn’t even say ‘hello’.
- Ian really is a bit of a strange bloke.
- He had a strange and frightening expression.
- When you arrive in a new country, everything seems strange.
- A strange accent
- She felt a strange tingling in the back of her neck.
- I always feel strange in a large group of people.
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