If you ask me

Definition

ask /ɑ:sk; US æsk/ v ၁။ ~ (sb) (about sb/ sth) ေမးျမန္းသည္။ စံုစမ္းသည္။ ‘Where are you going?’ She asked. ❍ She asked about my future plans. ❍ Ask him about the ring you lost—someone may have handed it in to the receptionist. ❍ Don't be afraid to ask questions. ❍ Did you ask the price? ❍ She asked them their names. ❍ He asked where I lived. ❍ I had to ask the teacher what to do next. ❍ She asked (me) If I could drive. ❍ I'm not insisting. I'm only asking. ၂။ ~ (sb) for sth; ~ sth (of sb) ေတာင္းသည္။ (ျပဳလုပ္ေပးရန္) ေမတၱာရပ္သည္။ Why don't you ask for a pay increase? ❍ ask for a cheese sandwich ❍ ask sb's advice/ opinion/ views ❍ If you want to camp in this field you must ask the farmer's permission. ❍ May I ask a favour (of you)? ❍ It's asking an awful lot of you to have my whole family to stay. ငါ့ တစ္မိသားစုလံုး တက္ေနဖို႔ ေတာင္းခံတာကေတာ့ မင္းအေပၚ လြန္ရာက်ပါတယ္။ ❍ I asked whether the airline would change my ticket. ❍ They asked the bank whether the loan could be increased. ❍ She asked (me) if I would drive her home. ❍ I asked james to buy some bread. ❍ ‘Could you help me move the table?’ she asked. ၃။ ခြင့္ေတာင္းသည္။ ask to use the car ❍ ask to speak to sb (eg on the phone) ❍ Ask whether it's all right to park here. ❍ I asked my boss whether I could have the day off. ❍ I must ask you to excuse me. ၄။ ~ sb (to sth) ဖိတ္ၾကားသည္။ ask them to dinner ❍ He's asked me out several times already. ❍ Shall we ask the neighbours in/ round (ie to our house)? ❍ She's asked him to come to the party. ၅။ ~ sth (for sth) ေဈးဆိုသည္။ ေဈးေခၚသည္။ You're asking too much—you'll never sell it at that price. ❍ how much are they asking for their house? ၆။ ေမွ်ာ္လင့္သည္။ ေတာင္းဆိုသည္။ It's asking a lot to expect them to win from this position. ❍ You're asking too much of him—he's already working as hard as he can. ❏ ask after sb [ PHRV ] မာေၾကာင္းသာေၾကာင္း သတင္းပလင္း ေမးျမန္းသည္။ He always asks after you in his letters. ❏ ask around [ PHRV ] လိုက္လံစံုစမ္းသည္။ ေလွ်ာက္ ေမးသည္။ don't know of any vacancies in the company but I'll ask around. ❏ ask for sb/ sth [ PHRV ] ေမးသည္။ စံုစမ္းသည္။ ask for the manager/ the bar. ❏ ask for trouble/ it [ IDM ] ( infml ) ကိုယ့္ျပႆနာ ကိုယ္ရွာသည္။ Driving after drinking alcohol is asking for trouble. ❏ asking price n ေခၚေဈး။ Never offer more than the asking price for a house. ❏ for the asking [ IDM ] ေတာင္းကာမွ်ျဖင့္…။ The job is yours for the asking (ie If you say you want it, it will be given to you). ❏ I ask you [ IDM ] ( infml ) ေမးစမ္းပါရေစ (ၾကားဖူး ရဲ႕လား…)။ I ask you! Have you ever heard anything so ridiculous in all your life? ❏ if you ask me [ IDM ] ငါ့အျမင္ကေတာ့။ ငါ့သေဘာ ကေတာ့။ If you ask me, this is a complete waste of time.

Examples

1. I wondered who had given her the ring but was afraid to ask.
2. [ask someone something] : I asked him his name
3. but he didn’t answer.
4. [ask (someone) why/how/whether etc] : She asked me how I knew about it.
5. [ask (someone) about something] : Did you ask about the money?
6. [ask someone a question] : The police wanted to ask us a few questions.
7. [ask yourself something] : He ought to ask himself why nobody ever invites him.
8. If you need any help
9. just ask.
10. [ask (someone) for something] : The children were asking for drinks.
11. [ask someone’s permission/advice/opinion etc] : I think we’d better ask your mum’s opinion first.
12. [ask someone a favour] : Can I ask you a favour?
13. [ask something (for something)] : It’s a nice house
14. but they’re asking over half a million pounds.
15. [ask a lot/too much] : It’s asking a lot of teenagers to expect them to see what’s wrong with consumerism.
16. All I want is five minutes’ peace and quiet: is that asking too much?
17. [ask someone (not) to do something] : We ask guests not to smoke in the hotel.
18. [ask someone (not) to do something] : Then the computer will ask you to restart it.
19. He asked us to join him.
20. [ask to do something] : I asked to see the manager.
21. [ask (not) to be] : The writer has asked not to be named.
22. [ask that someone (should) do something] : The committee has asked that this scheme be stopped for now.
23. [ask someone to something] : How many people have you asked to the party?
24. [ask someone for something] : We should ask them for a meal sometime.
25. [ask someone over/round] : The neighbours have asked us over for a drink.
26. [ask someone in] : We waited for half an hour before he asked us in.
27. [ask someone to do something] : They asked me to stay the night.