Agree

Definition

agree / ǝ'gri: / v ၁။ သေဘာတူသည္။ ခြင့္ျပဳသည္။ လိုက္ေလ်ာ သည္။ I asked for a pay rise and she agreed. ❍ Is he going to agree to our suggestion? ❍ He agreed to let me go/ agreed that I could go home early. Compare REFUSE v ၂။ (က) သေဘာတူသည္။ လက္ခံသည္။ When he said that, I had to agree. ❍ "I'm sorry, I don't agree," he said. ❍ I agree with his analysis of the situation. ❍ Do you agree with me about the need for more schools? ❍ We agreed to start early. ❍ "That's certainly true," she agreed. (ခ) သေဘာခ်င္း ႀကိဳက္ညီသည္။ သေဘာတူသည္။ သေဘာတူ ဆံုးျဖတ္သည္။ Can we agree a price? ❍ They met at the agreed time. ၃။ ( esp Brit ) သေဘာတူသည္။ အတည္ျပဳသည္။ Next year's budget has been agreed. ၄။ ကိုက္သည္။ ကိုက္ညီသည္။ The two accounts do not agree. ❍ Your account of the affair does not agree with hers. Compare DISAGREE ၅။ ( grammar ) ကိန္း၊ လိင္ စသည္အရ ပုဒ္အခ်င္းခ်င္း လိုက္ဖက္ညီၫြတ္သည္။ a verb that agrees with its subject. ❏ agree to differ [ IDM ] ေရွ႕ဆက္ အျငင္းမပြားရန္ သေဘာထားခ်င္း မတိုက္ဆိုင္မႈကို အတည္ျပဳသည္။ We must just agree to differ on this. ❏ agree with sb [ PHRV ] တည့္သည္။ The humid climate didn't agree with him. ❍ I like mushrooms but unfortunately they don't agree with me. ❏ be agreed (on/ about sth); be agreed (that…) [ IDM ] သေဘာတူသည္။ ဆံုးျဖတ္သည္။ Are we all agreed on the best course of action? ❍ It was agreed that another meeting was necessary. ❏ couldn't agree (with sb) more [ IDM ] ေသြးထြက္ေအာင္ မွန္လိုက္တာ။ 'The plan's bound to fail. ' 'I couldn't agree more!'

Examples

1. Doreen thought that the house was too small
2. and Jim agreed.
3. [agree with] : I agree with my mother about most things.
4. I entirely agree with the comments you made about public transport.
5. [agree (that)] : We all agree that we should celebrate this event.
6. [it is agreed (that)] : It is generally agreed that we should eat less fat and more vegetables.
7. [agree on/about] : The committee members all agree on the need for more information.
8. I asked her to marry me
9. and she agreed.
10. [agree to do something] : The school agreed to send the students on the course.
11. [agree to] : We have agreed to their request for a full investigation.
12. Yesterday management and unions agreed a pay deal.
13. [agree on/upon] : We need to agree on a date for our next meeting.
14. The statements given by the two witnesses did not agree.
15. [agree with] : The observations agree with the predictions we made earlier.