Before

Definition

before /bÇ'fↄ:(r)/ adv မတိုင္မီက။ ယခင္က။ You should have told me so before. ❍ It had been fine the day/week before (ie the previous day/week). ❍ That had happened long before (ie a long time earlier). ❍ I've seen that film before. ❍ Compare AFTER adv , AFTERWARDS prep ၁။ မတိုင္ခင္။ မတိုင္မီ။ before lunch ❍ the day before yesterday ❍ two days before Christmas ❍ The year before last he won a gold medal, and the year before that he won the silver. ❍ She's lived there since before the war. ❍ He arrived before me. ❍ He taught English as his father had before him. ❍ Something ought to have been done before now. ❍ We'll know before long (ie soon) ❍ Turn left just before (ie before you reach) the cinema. Compare AFTER ၁ ၂။ (က) ေရွ႕ေမွာက္၌။ They knelt before the throne. ❍ Before you is a list of the points we have to deal with in this meeting. Compare BEHIND prep (ခ) ေရွ႕က။ B comes before C in the alphabet. ❍ Your name is before mine on the list. ❍ ladies before gentlemen ❍ He puts his work before everything (ie regards it as more important than anything else). Compare AFTER prep ၃ (ဂ) ေရွ႕လာမည့္။ The task before us is a daunting one. ၃။ (က) ေရွ႕ေမွာက္သို႔။ ေရွ႕ေမွာက္၌။ He was brought before the judge. ❍ She said it before witnesses. ❍ He made a statement before the House of Commons. (ခ) အထံသို႔။ The proposal went before the Board. ၄။ ( fml ) မခံႏိုင္ေတာ့၍။ They retreated before the enemy. conj ၁။ …ခင္။ (မျပဳခင္၊ မျဖစ္ခင္ စသည္)။ Do it before you forget. ❍ Did she leave a message before she went? ❍ Before I made a decision, I thought carefully about it. ❍ Leave your key at reception before departing. Compare AFTER conj ၂။ တိုင္ေအာင္။ အထိ။ It may be many years before the economic situation improves. ❍ How long did it take before you started to have some success? ❍ It was some time before I realized the truth. ၃။ ( fml ) မည့္အစား။ He'd starve before he stole anything (ie He'd prefer to die of starvation rather than steal food).

Examples

1. I went for a run before breakfast.
2. The others had got there before us.
3. Won’t you have another drink before you go?
4. I joined the police in 1999. Before that I was in the army.
5. Two weeks before the election the first reports of the scandal began to appear.
6. [before doing something] : You should seek legal advice before signing anything.
7. Haven’t we met before somewhere?
8. Never before in modern history has one nation dominated the world so completely.
9. Several years went by before I realized that David had lied to me.
10. Before I could think of a reply she walked away.
11. Clean up that mess before your father sees it.
12. You’d better go away before I lose my temper.
13. The case went before a grand jury on December 17th.
14. The question before us is whether we should allow a foreign government to control our commerce.
15. The team scored an impressive victory before 76
16. 000 fans at Arrowhead Stadium.
17. A few miles before the border we were stopped at an army checkpoint.
18. Our house is just before you get to the end of the road.
19. Lawrence knelt before the king.
20. Before the temple gate stood a bronze statue of Buddha.
21. The names are in alphabetical order
22. so ‘Barnes’ should come before ‘Brown’.
23. A promising career stretched out before him.
24. You’re still young – you have your whole life before you.