will

will /wÇl/ modal v (short form 'll /l/ ; neg will not , short form won't /wǝƱnt/ ; pt would /wǝd , strong form wƱd/ , short form 'd /d/ ; neg would not , short form wouldn't /'wƱdnt/ )

၁။ (က) (အနာဂတ်ပြစကား)။ မည်။ လိမ့်မည်။ အံ့။ လတ္တံ့။ မယ်။ Next year will be our tenth wedding anniversary. ❍ He'll start school this year, won't he? ❍ You'll be in time if you hurry. ❍ How long will you be staying in Paris? ❍ Fred said he'd be leaving soon. ❍ By next year all the money will have been spent. ❍ SHALL
(ခ) (ပစ္စုပ္ပန်၌ ဖြစ်နေနိုင်သည့် သဘောပြစကား)။ … မှာပါ။ That'll be the doctor now! ❍ They'll be home by this time. ❍ You'll have had dinner already, I suppose.
၂။ (က) (ပန်ကြားခြင်းအနက်ပြစကား)။ မလား။ နိုင်မလား။ မည်လား။ Will you send this letter for me, please? ❍ You'll water the plants while I'm away, won't you? ❍ I asked him if he wouldn't mind calling later.
(ခ) (အမိန့်ပေး စေခိုင်းပြစကား)။ … စမ်း။ You'll do it this minute! ❍ Will you be quiet!
၃။ (ဆန္ဒညွှန်စကား)။ …မယ်။ …မှာ။ …ပါတယ်။ I'll check this letter for you, if you want. ❍ We won't lend you any more money. ❍ He wouldn't ride on my motor bike — he was too frightened. ❍ We said we would keep them. ❍ I will admit that it wasn't a very sensible thing to do.
၄။ (က) (ဖြစ်မြဲ သဘောပြ စကား)။ မည်။ မှာ။ If it's made of wood it will float. ❍ Engines won't run without lubricants.
(ခ) (သေချာကြောင်းပြစကား)။ တယ်။ မှာ။ This jar will hold a kilo. ဒီဘူးက တစ်ကီလို ဆံ့တယ်။ ❍ The door won't open! တံခါးဖွင့်လို့ မရဘူး။ (တံခါးပွင့်မှာ မဟုတ်ဘူး။ )
၅။ (အကျင့်၊ အလေ့ကိုပြသော စကား)။ နေပေလိမ့် မည်။ မှာပါ။ She'll listen to music, alone in her room, for hours. ❍ He would spend hours in the bathroom or on the telephone.
၆။ (မကျေမနပ်၊ မနှစ်သက်သည့် သဘောကိုပြသော စကား)။ …ဦးမှာပဲ။ He will comb his hair at the table, even though he knows I don't like it. ❍ He would keep telling those dreadful stories.
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၁။ (only used in the simple present tense; 3rd pers sing will ) (dated or fml ) (စိတ်ဆန္ဒရှိသလို ခွင့်ပြုကြောင်းပြ စကား)။ Call it what you will, it's still a problem. ဘာပြောပြော အဲဒါကတော့ပြဿနာပဲ။ ❍ You're free to travel where you will in the country. ပြည်တွင်းမှာ ဘယ်သွားသွား လွတ်လွတ်လပ်လပ် သွားနိုင်တယ်။
၂။ ဆန္ဒပြုသည်။ ဆုတောင်း သည်။ As a child he thought that his grandmother's death had happened because he had willed it. ❍ The crowd were cheering her, willing her to win/ willing her on. ❍ Closing his eyes, he willed himself to relax. ❍ Gripping the steering wheel tightly she tried to will the van up the hill.
၃။ (fml ) အလိုရှိသည်။ ဆန္ဒရှိသည်။ This happened because God willed it.
၄။ ~ sth (to sb) (fml ) သေတမ်းစာဖြင့် လွှဲသည်။ He willed most of his money to charity. ❍ Father willed me the house and my sister his stocks and shares.
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၁။ [U, sing] စိတ်စွမ်းအား။ စိတ္တာဓိပတိ။ See also FREE WILL
၂။ (က) [U, sing] (also will-power [U]) ဆန္ဒ စွမ်းအား။ ဆန္ဒာဓိပတိ။ have a strong/ weak will ❍ He has no will of his own. ❍ She shows great strength of will. (ခ) [U,C] ပြင်းပြသော ဆန္ဒ၊ စိတ်ဓာတ်။ Despite her terrible injuries, she hasn't lost the will to live. ❍ There was a clash of wills among committee members.
၃။ [U] စိတ်သဘော။ စိတ်နှလုံး။ bear sb no ill will. See also GOODWILL
၄။ [U] အလို (အတိုင်း)။ try to do God's will ❍ It is the will of Allah.
၅။ [C] သေတမ်းစာ။ one's last will and testament ❍ Have you made a /your will?
❏ against one's will [IDM ] သဘောမတူဘဲ။ ဆန္ဒမပါဘဲ။ I was forced to sign the agreement against my will.
❏ at will [IDM ] သဘောရှိ။ come and go at will ❍ The animals are allowed to wander at will in the park.
❏ if you will [IDM ] (fml ) ဒီလို ခေါ်ချင်သပ ဆိုရင်။ He became her senior adviser — her deputy, if you will.
❏ where there's a will there's a way [IDM ] (saying ) ဆန္ဒရှိက နည်းလမ်းရ။
❏ -willed (forming compound adjs ) … သည့် စိတ်ဆန္ဒ။ strong-willed ❍ weak-willed.
❏ will-power n [U] = WILL n ၂(က)
❏ with a will [IDM ] စိတ်ပါလက်ပါ။ လိုလားထက်သန်စွာ။ They set to work with a will.