than
/ðan/
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than /ðǝn; rare strong form ðæn/ conj
(နှိုင်းယှဉ်ရာတွင်သုံးသော စကား)။ ထက်၊ အောက်။ He's never more annoying than when he's trying to help. ❍ She's a better player than (she was) last year. ❍ He loves me more than you do. ❍ You should know better than to behave like that.
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၁။ (နာမ်၊ နာမ်စား ရှေ့တွင် နှိုင်းယှဉ်ခြင်း ကိုပြသည်။ ) ထက်၊ အောက်။ He learns more quickly than the others. ❍ I'm older than her. ❍ Nobody understands the situation better than you. ❍ There was more whisky in it than soda.
၂။ (အရေအတွက်၊ အကွာအဝေး စသည်ကို နှိုင်းယှဉ်ရာ၌ more/less နောက်တွင် ထား၍သုံးသည်။ ) ထက်၊ အောက်။ It cost me more than $100. ❍ It never takes more than an hour. ❍ He can't be more than fifteen. ❍ It's less than a mile to the beach.
၃။ (no sooner, hardly, barely, scarcely တို့နှင့် အစချီသောဝါကျကဏ္ဍ၏ နောက်တွင်ထား၍ ဖြစ်ရပ် တစ်ခုနှင့်တစ်ခု ဆက်တိုက်ကဲ့သို့ဖြစ်ခြင်းကိုပြသည်။ ) … ၍မျှမကြာမီ။ … ရုံရှိသေး။ No sooner had I sat down than there was a loud knock at the door. ❍ Hardly/Barely/Scarcely had we arrived than the problems started. See also OTHER THAN, RATHER THAN
- Nylon is considerably stronger than cotton.
- Diesel fuel was less expensive than petrol.
- Is the world a safer place than it was a year ago?
- We don’t want to do more than is necessary.
- [more/less than] : No one should have to wait more than 24 hours to see a doctor.
- A small town of less than 5, 000 people
- It was more a friendly warning than a threat.
- Most criminals would rather go to prison than meet their victims.
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