Dictionary entry

Appreciative

Pronunciation: /əˈpriːʃ(ɪ)ətɪv/

Pronunciation

/əˈpriːʃ(ɪ)ətɪv/

Myanmar Meaning

(adj) ကျေးဇူးတင် [သော]။ သဘောကျသော။ နှစ်လိုသော။

Definition

appreciate /ǝ'pri:ʃieÇt/ v ၁။ (က) အရသာခံစားႏိုင္သည္။ You can't fully appreciate foreign literature in translation. ❍ I really appreciate a good cup of tea. (ခ) အသိအမွတ္ ျပဳသည္။ သေဘာက်သည္။ My boss doesn't appreciate me. ၂။ နားလည္သည္။ သေဘာေပါက္သည္။ သတိထားမိ သည္။ I appreciate your problem, but I don't think I can help you. ❍ As you will appreciate, we still have a lot of improvements to make. ❍ I appreciate that you may have prior commitments. ❍ You don't seem to appreciate how busy I am. ၃။ ေက်းဇူးတင္သည္။ ႀကိဳဆိုသည္။ လိုလားသည္။ I would appreciate any advice you could give me. ❍ Your help was greatly appreciated. ❍ I'd appreciate it if you paid in cash. ❍ We'd appreciate her knowing about this as soon as possible. ❍ They appreciated being invited. ၄။ တန္ဖိုးတက္သည္။ Local property has appreciated (in value) since they built the shopping mall nearby. ❏ appreciative /ǝ'pri:ʃǝtÇv/ adj ၁။ ~ (of sth) ေက်းဇူးတင္ [ေသာ]။ an appreciative letter ❍ I'm most appreciative of your letter. ၂။ သေဘာက်ေသာ။ ႏွစ္လိုေသာ။ an appreciative audience/smile ❍ appreciative laughter. appreciatively adv

Examples

  1. I began to appreciate the difficulties my father had faced.
  2. [appreciate how/why/what etc] : Doctors are only now beginning to appreciate how dangerous this drug can be.
  3. [appreciate that] : We appreciate that you cannot make a decision immediately.
  4. [fully appreciate] : I don’t believe the Prime Minister fully appreciates the complexity of the problem.
  5. She feels that her family doesn’t really appreciate her.
  6. A restaurant that is popular with people who appreciate good service and fine wines
  7. [be truly/properly appreciated] : Many of the junior staff feel they are not properly appreciated.
  8. I appreciate this opportunity to put my point of view to the committee.
  9. I really appreciate all your help.