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Definition

both /bǝƱθ/ adj (with plural ns , which may be preceded by a def art, a demonstrative det or a possess det ) ႏွစ္ (ခု၊ ေယာက္၊ ဖက္ စသည္) လံုး။ hold sth in both hands ❍ Both books/Both the books/Both these books are expensive. ❍ Both (her) children are at college. ❍ He is blind in both eyes. ❍ There are shops on both sides of the street. pron (က) ~ (of sb/sth) (ေရွ႕နာမ္၊ နာမ္စားကို ၫႊန္းသည္။ ) ႏွစ္ခုလံုး၊ ႏွစ္ေယာက္လံုး၊ ႏွစ္ဖက္လံုး စသည္။ He has two brothers: both live in Toronto. ❍ His parents are both dead. ❍ My sister and I both went to the party. ❍ I like these shirts. I'll take both (of them). ❍ I've invited them both. (ခ) ~ of sb/sth (ေနာက္နာမ္၊ နာမ္စားကို ၫႊန္းသည္။ ) ႏွစ္ခုလံုး၊ ႏွစ္ေယာက္လံုး၊ ႏွစ္ဖက္လံုး စသည္။ Both of us want to go to the party. (Compare: We both want to go to the party. ) ❍ Both of her children have blue eyes. (Compare: Her children both have blue eyes. ) ❍ ALL adv ~ …and… (က) … လည္း…၊ … လည္း…။ be both tired and hungry. ေမာလည္းေမာ၊ ဆာလည္းဆာ။ (ခ) …ေရာ …ေရာ။ …ေရာ…ပါ။ She speaks both French and English. ျပင္သစ္ေရာ အဂၤလိပ္ပါ တတ္တယ္။ ❍ Both his brother and sister are married. ❍ She was a success both as a pianist and as a conductor. ❏ have/want it/things both ways [ IDM ] ေလွနံ ႏွစ္ဖက္ နင္းသည္။ You can't have it both ways (ie You must decide on one thing or the other). ❍ ALL

Examples

1. Both my parents are doctors.
2. You can write on both sides of the paper.
3. There were two separate projects
4. and both came up with the same results.
5. She invited us both down for a drink.
6. [both of] : Both of the leaders expressed hope that the talks would continue.
7. Two companies
8. both of which are owned by News International