Almost

Definition

almost /'ↄ:lmǝƱst/ adv (က) လုနီးပါး။ နီးနီး။ နီးပါး။ … တိုင္း လိုလို။ It's a mistake they almost always make. ❍ The story is almost certainly false. ❍ It's almost time to go. ❍ Dinner's almost ready. ❍ He slipped and almost fell. ❍ Their house is almost opposite ours. ❍ He's almost six feet tall. ❍ Almost anything will do. (ခ) (no,nobody, none, nothing, never ပုဒ္မ်ား ေရွ႕တြင္)(ဘာ၊ တစ္ခုတေလ၊ ဘယ္သူ၊ တစ္ေယာက္ တေလ၊ ဘယ္ေတာ့) မွ်။ သေလာက္။ Almost no one (ie Hardly anyone) believed him. ❍ The speaker said almost nothing (ie hardly anything) worth listening to.

Examples

1. ‘Are you ready?’ ‘Almost! I’m just putting my shoes on.’
2. It’s almost a year since she died.
3. The baby’s almost walking now.
4. [almost all] : Almost all of the students here are from South America.
5. [almost every/everyone/everything etc] : Almost everything was lost in the fire.
6. [almost as...as] : Sam’s almost as tall as his mother.
7. [almost certainly] : Anne will almost certainly get the job
8. don’t you think?