whether

whether /'weðǝ(r)/ conj

၁။ (တစ်ခုမဟုတ်တစ်ခု၊ နှစ်ခုအနက် တစ်ခုခု ရွေးချယ်မှုသဘောပြသောစကားလုံး)။
(က) လား…လား။ မလား…မလား။ I don't know whether I'll be able to come. ❍ We'll be told tomorrow whether we're needed or not. ❍ We were wondering whether to go today or tomorrow. (Note that when there are two alternative clauses separated by or , whether is repeated. ) ❍ I asked him whether he had done it all himself or whether someone had helped him. Compare if ၄ (ခ) (after adjs and preps ) …ရမလား။ …ကောင်းမလား။ …လား…လား။ …မလား…မလား။ …မလား …ဘူးလား။ She was undecided whether she should accept his offer. ❍ It was not clear whether the riots were political or religious. ❍ He hesitated about whether to drive or take the train. ❍ It all depends on whether it rains or not. (ဂ) …ရဲ့လား။ …မလား…မလား။ It's doubtful whether there'll be any seats left. ❍ The question is whether to go to Munich or Vienna.
၂။ …ဖြစ်စေ…ဖြစ်စေ။ You are entitled to a free gift whether you apply by post or by phone.
❏ whether or not [IDM ] (ဖြစ်နိုင်ခြေနှစ်ခုအနက် တစ်ခုခုသာ ဖြစ်မည့်သဘောကို ရည်ညွှန်း သုံးစွဲသော စကား)။ Whether or not it rains/Whether it rains or not, we're playing football on Saturday. မိုးရွာသည်ဖြစ်စေ၊ မရွာသည်ဖြစ်စေ…။ ❍ Let me know whether or not you're interested. စိတ်ဝင်စားခြင်း ရှိ၊ မရှိ…။ ❍ She'll go to their wedding, whether you like it or not. ကြိုက်ကြိုက် မကြိုက်ကြိုက်…။ ❍ if