Could

Definition

could 1 /kǝd; strong form kƱd/ modal v (neg could not ; contracted form couldn't /'kƱdnt/) ၁။ (ခြင့္ေတာင္းရာ၊ ခြင့္ပန္ရာ၌ သံုးေသာ အေမးစကား)။ တစ္ဆိတ္ေလာက္…ပါရေစ။ Could I use your phone, please? ❍ Could I borrow your bicycle? ❍ Could we come round next week? ❍ MAY ေမတၱာရပ္ခံရာ၌သံုးေသာ အေမး စကား)။ တစ္ဆိတ္ေလာက္…ႏိုင္မလား။ Could you babysit for us on Friday? ❍ Could you just type one more letter before you go? ❍ Do you think I could have a glass of water? Compare WOULD. ၃။ (ျဖစ္ႏိုင္ဖြယ္အလားအလာကို ေဖာ္ျပေသာ စကား)။ …ႏိုင္တယ္။ You could be right, I suppose. ❍ My wife's in labour— the baby could arrive at any time. ❍ Don't worry— they could have just forgotten to phone. ❍ You couldn't have left it on the bus, could you? ❍ ‘Have some more chocolate mousse. ’ ‘Oh, I couldn't, thank you (ie I'm too full)’. ❍ MIGHT ၄။ (သင့္ေၾကာင္း၊ အပ္ေၾကာင္း ေဖာ္ျပေသာစကား)။ …လွ်င္ ေကာင္းမည္။ We could write a letter to the director. ❍ You could always try his home number. ၅။ (စိတ္ ကသိ ကေအာက္ ျဖစ္သည့္သေဘာကို ေဖာ္ျပေသာစကား)။ …ႏိုင္သား ႏွင့္။ …ေကာင္းတာေပါ့။ They could have let me know they were going to be late! ၆။ ( infml ) (သည္းမခံႏိုင္လုနီးပါး ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္းျပ စကား)။ I'm so fed up I could scream! စိတ္ကုန္လိုက္တာ၊ ကုန္းေတာင္ေအာ္လိုက္ခ်င္တယ္။ could 2 pt of CAN

Examples

1. Renee could already read when she was four.
2. In the distance I could see a cloud of smoke.
3. Could I have a glass of water?
4. Could you post this letter for me?
5. I wonder if we could borrow your lawnmower?
6. We could still win – the game isn’t over yet.
7. In a situation like this
8. anything could happen.
9. [could easily] : You could easily lose your way in the dark.
10. You could come and stay with us.
11. [could always] : You could always sell the cottage if you need some extra cash.
12. How could you be so cruel!
13. They could at least have said they were sorry.
14. It’s all Helen’s fault. I could strangle her!
15. When I heard the news
16. I was so happy I could have cried.