How

Definition

how /haƱ/ interrog adv ၁။ ဘယ္လို။ ဘယ္ပံု။ ဘယ္နည္း။ How do you spell your name? ❍ Can you show me how to use this machine? ❍ How do you get to the town centre from here? ❍ I don't know how I'm ever going to explain this! ၂။ (မာရဲ႕လားဟု အဓိပၸာယ္ရေသာစကား)။ How are the children? ❍ How are you feeling now? ၃။ (တစ္စံုတစ္ရာေသာအေျခအေနကိုေမးရာတြင္ သံုးေသာ စကား)။ ဘယ့္ႏွယ္လဲ။ How was your holiday? ❍ How is your job? ၄။ ဘယ္ေလာက္။ How old is she? ❍ How long did you wait? ❍ How often do you go swimming? ❍ How many people will be there? ❍ How much does it cost? ❍ I didn't know how much luggage to bring. ၅။ ဘယ္ေလာက္။ ဘယ္ေလာက္ေတာင္။ ဘယ္ေလာက္မ်ား။ Look how dirty that child is! ❍ How kind of you to help! ❍ How pale she looks! conj ( infml ) (က) ဘယ္ပံုဘယ္နည္း။ ဘယ္လို။ She described how he had run up to her and grabbed her bag. (ခ) …သလို။ I'll dress how I like in my own house! ❏ and how! [ IDM ] ( infml ) ဟုတ္ပါ့။ မွန္လိုက္ေလ။ ‘Did you get lost?’ ‘And how!’ ❏ how's that? [ IDM ] ၁။ ဘာ့ေၾကာင့္လဲ။ ဘာလို႔လဲ။ ‘I left work early today. ’ ‘How's that (ie why)?’ ၂။ (ထင္ျမင္ခ်က္ ကို ေမးျမန္းရာတြင္သံုးသည့္ စကား)။ ဘယ့္ႏွယ္လဲ။ ဘယ္လိုလဲ။ I'll tuck your sheets in for you. How's that? Comfortable? ❍ Two o'clock on the dot! How's that for punctuality?

Examples

1. How can I get from here to Oxford Street?
2. ‘We have to get out of this place.’ ‘Yes
3. but how?’
4. Louis is the only person who understands how the system works.
5. How they ever made a profit is an absolute mystery.
6. [how to do something] : Would you show me how to send an email?
7. Just tell me how the story ends.
8. How did she react when you mentioned my name?
9. How does the new program differ from the old one?
10. I don’t see how this crisis is any worse than the one we had last year.
11. ‘How do you like your coffee?’ ‘Just a little milk
12. please.’
13. Cut her hair short if that’s how she wants it.
14. How you look is not so important in radio broadcasting.
15. I hate how my voice sounds on tape.
16. Now I’ve left school I can dress how I want.
17. I wonder how far we’ve walked today.
18. How old is your sister?
19. I soon realized how difficult my job was going to be.
20. [how much/many] : I know how much time is wasted on unnecessary tasks.
21. How many grandchildren do you have now?
22. How was school today?
23. How’s life in the army?
24. [how did something go] : How did your driving test go?
25. You know how much I love you.
26. I was amazed at just how easy it is to shop on the Internet.
27. How wonderful! This means we can all travel together.
28. How kind of you to say all those nice things about me!
29. I remember how they used to have those huge roaring fires in the winter.
30. Isn’t it strange how no one ever mentions his name nowadays?