Dictionary entry

Either

Pronunciation: /ˈʌɪðə/

Pronunciation

/ˈʌɪðə/

Myanmar Meaning

(n) နှစ်ခုအနက် တစ်ခု။ တစ်ခုခု (သို့) တစ်ဦးဦး။ (det) နှစ်...စလုံး။ (adv) (ဆိုခဲ့ပြီးသောအရာအပြင် ယခုအရာပါ နှစ်မျိုးလုံးအကျုံးဝင်ကြောင်းအနက်ဖြင့် ငြင်းပယ်ဝါကျ အဆုံးတွင် သုံးသော စကား)။ လည်း ...လည်း။ (pron) နှစ်ခုအနက်တစ်ခု (det) နှစ် စလုံး

Definition

either /'aÇðǝ(r), 'i:ðǝ(r)/ indef det , indef pron ၁။ ႏွစ္ခုအနက္ တစ္ခု။ တစ္ခုခု (သို႔) တစ္ဦးဦး။ (က) ( det ) You can park on either side of the street. ❍ Keep either one of the photos—I don't mind which. (ခ) ( pron ) (used with a sing v ): I've bought two cakes—you can have either. ❍ Read from one of the books on the table—either of them will do. ၂။ ( det ) ႏွစ္…စလံုး။ The offices on either side were empty. ❍ There's a staircase at either end of the corridor. Compare BOTH adj indef adv ၁။ (ဆိုခဲ့ၿပီးေသာအရာအျပင္ ယခုအရာပါ ႏွစ္မ်ဳိးလံုးအက်ံဳးဝင္ေၾကာင္းအနက္ျဖင့္ ျငင္းပယ္ဝါက် အဆံုးတြင္ သံုးေသာ စကား)။ လည္း …လည္း။ I don't like the red shirt and I don't like the green one either. ရွပ္အက်ႌအနီကိုလည္း မႀကိဳက္ဘူး။ အစိမ္းကိုလည္း မႀကိဳက္ဘူး။ ❍ Mary won't go and Peter won't (go) either. (Compare: …and neither will Peter. ) ❍ He can't hear and he can hardly speak either. နားလည္းေလးေသး၊ ဆြံ႕လည္း ဆြံ႕ေသး။ ❍ I know a good Italian restaurant. It's not far from here, either. အီတလီစားေသာက္ဆိုင္ ေကာင္း တစ္ခုရိွတယ္။ ဒီနဲ႔လည္း မေဝးဘူး။ ❍ also ၂။ either …or… …သို႔မဟုတ္…။ တစ္ခုမဟုတ္ တစ္ခု။ She's either French or Spanish. ❍ I left it either on the table or in the drawer. ❍ You can either write or phone to order a copy. ❍ He either could not come or did not want to. သူမလာႏိုင္တာရင္လည္း ျဖစ္မယ္။ မလာခ်င္တာလည္း ျဖစ္မယ္။

Examples

  1. Cheque or credit card – you can use either.
  2. Applications are welcomed from people of either sex and any age.
  3. [either of] : It was a long time before either of them spoke.
  4. Jackie could play the piano and sing
  5. whereas I couldn’t do either.
  6. Most of the troublemakers were not supporters of either team.
  7. [either of] : I didn’t like either of the candidates.
  8. We tried another method
  9. but that didn’t work either.
  10. It’s a problem I can’t solve
  11. and I don’t think anyone else can either.
  12. He did a superb job
  13. and he didn’t have any help either.