what
/wɒt/
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(pron) (အမေးနာမ်စား)ဘာ။ဘယ်။ထိုအရာ။ဘယ်အရာ။ထိုဟာ။(တစ်စုံတစ်ခုလုပ်ရန်လာသူ၏ဆန္ဒကိုမေးသောစကား။)(ဒါဖြစ်ရင်)ဘာဖြစ်လဲ။ဘယ်လိုဖြစ်မလဲ။ (adj) အဲဒီ။ထို။အလိုလေးလေး။အားပါးပါး။ (det) ဘာ
(အမေးစကား)။ ဘာ။ ဘယ်။ မည်သည့်။ What time/date is it? ❍ What books have you got on the subject? ❍ What number did you ring? ❍ What kind of music do you like? ❍ which
interrog pron (အမေးနာမ်စား)။ ဘာ။ ဘယ်။ What did you say? ❍ What (ie What job) does he do? ❍ What are you reading/sewing/thinking? ❍ What's the time/date? ❍ What does it mean? ❍ What do you want to do now?
det ထို။ အဲဒီ။ I spent what little time I had with my family. ❍ What family and friends I still have live abroad.
pron ထိုအရာ။ ဘယ်အရာ။ ထိုဟာ။ ဘယ်ဟာ။ What you say may well be true. ❍ No one knows what will happen next.
det , adv (တအံ့တဩနှင့်ပြောသောစကား)။ အလိုလေးလေး။ အားပါးပါး။ …လိုက်တဲ့။ What (awful) weather we're having! ❍ What a lovely view! ❍ What big feet you've got!
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၁။ (infml ) (မကြား၍ ပြန်မေးသောစကား)။ ဘာပြောတယ်။ ဘာ။ ဘယ်လို။ What? Can you say that again?
၂။ (infml ) (ပြန်ထူးသောစကား)။ ဘာတုံး။ ဘာလဲ။ ‘Hey, Bill!’ ‘What?’ ‘Where's the corkscrew?’
၃။ (မယုံကြည်ကြောင်း၊ အံ့ဩကြောင်း ပြသောစကား)။ ဘာ။ ဘယ်လို။ ‘I've won a trip to New York. ’ ‘What?’ ❍ ‘It will cost £500. ’ ‘What?’
❏ and what not [IDM ] (infml ) စသည် စသည်။ ဘာတွေ ညာတွေ။ It's full of old toys, books and what not.
❏ get/give sb what for [IDM ] (Brit infml ) ပြင်းထန်စွာ အပြစ်ပေးခံရသည်။ ပြင်းပြင်းထန်ထန် အပြစ်ပေးသည်။ I'll give her what for if she does that again.
❏ what-d'you-call-him/-her/-it/-them (also what's-his/-her/-its/-their-name ) n (အမည် ရုတ်တရက် စဉ်းစား မရ၍ သုံးသောစကား)။ ဦးဘယ်သူ။ မဘယ်ဝါ။ ဟဝါ။ ဟိုဒင်း။ ဟိုဟာ။ She's just gone out with old what-d'you-call-him.
❏ what for? [IDM ] ဘာအတွက်လဲ။ ဘာအကြောင်းကြောင့်လဲ။ ဘာလုပ်ဖို့လဲ။ What is this tool for? ❍ (infml ) What did you do that for? (ie Why did you do that?) ❍ ‘I need to go to the doctor. ’ ‘What for?’
❏ what if? [IDM ] (ဒါဖြစ်ရင်) ဘာဖြစ်မလဲ။ ဘယ်လို ဖြစ်မလဲ။ …ရင်ကော။ What if the train is late? ❍ What if she forgets to bring it?
❏ what of it?; so what? [IDM ] (infml ) အဲဒါ ဘာဖြစ်လဲ။ အဲဒီတော့ဘာဖြစ်လဲ။ Yes, I wrote it. What of it?
❏ what's what [IDM ] (infml ) ဘယ်သင်းက ဘာဆိုတာ။ She certainly knows what's what.
❏ what with sth [IDM ] အဲဒါ အဲဒါတွေကြောင့်။ What with the cold weather and my bad leg,
I haven't been out for weeks.
- What’s your name?
- What time is it?
- What was the weather like?
- I asked her what kind of music she liked.
- People sometimes ask me what I’m going to do when I retire.
- ‘I’m worried, Harry.’ ‘What about?’
- I told him what the problem was.
- She wasn’t quite sure what she was going to say.
- We suddenly realized what was happening.
- I haven’t even thought about what I’m going to wear to the dinner.
- [what to do/say/think etc] : Poor Kevin! He doesn’t know what to do.
- You haven’t given me what I asked for.
- What you need is a good long holiday.
- What annoys me is the way he boasts about what he’s done.
- George always does his best, and that’s what I like about him.
- Tom eagerly finished up what was left of the champagne and chicken pie.
- What little free time he had was spent with the family.
- What awful weather we’ve been having!
- What a nice surprise!
- What a nuisance for you, having to make all these changes.
- What! Are they still in bed?
- What! You mean he can’t read or write?
- ‘Turn the radio down, will you?’ ‘What?’
- You’ll have to pay rent, which is, what, about £300 a month or something like that.
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