Not

Definition

not /nɒt/ adv ၁။ (က) (အကူႀကိယာ၊ ႀကိယာေထာက္ ပစၥည္းကဲ့သို႔ေသာ ပုဒ္မ်ားႏွင့္ တြဲဖက္၍သံုးရေသာ အျငင္းျပစကား)။ မ…ဘူး။ She did not see him. ❍ You may not get the job. ❍ They aren't here. ❍ I mustn't forget. ❍ It's cold today, isn't it? ❍ Wouldn't you like to go home? (ခ) (ဆန္႔က်င္ဘက္ အနက္ျဖင့္ သံုးေသာစကား)။ မ…(ရန္၊ သျဖင့္၊ သည့္အတြက္ စသည္)။ He warned me not to be late. ❍ I was sorry not to have seen him. ❍ She accused me of not telling the truth. ၂။ (က) (believe, expect, hope, trust စသည့္ ႀကိယာမ်ား ေနာက္တြင္ တည္၍ ျငင္းပယ္စကားရပ္အစား အတို ေကာက္အျဖစ္သံုးေသာ ပုဒ္)။ မ (ထင္၊ ေမွ်ာ္လင့္၊ ျဖစ္ စသည္) ပါ။ ‘Will it rain?’ ‘I hope not (ie I hope that it will not rain). ' ❍ 'Did she pass?' 'I'm afraid not. ' ❍ (fml) 'Does he know?' 'I believe not. ' (ခ) (ဟုတ္မဟုတ္၊ ရိွမရိွ၊ ျဖစ္မျဖစ္ စသည့္ ပံုစံျဖင့္ အေမးဝါက်တို႔တြင္ ဆန္႔က်င္ဘက္အဆိုအပိုင္း ကို ကိုယ္စားျပဳေသာ စကား) မ …ဘူ လား။ Is she ready or not? ❍ I don't know if/ whether he's telling the truth or not. ၃။ (ေျဖဆိုရာတြင္ ျငင္းပယ္ျပအေျဖပိုင္းကို ကိုယ္စားျပဳေသာ စကား)။ မ…ဘူး။ ‘Are you hungry?’ ‘Not hungry, just very tired. ’ ❍ ‘Would you like some more?’ ‘Not for me, thank you. ’ ၄။ (က) (နာမ္၊ နာမ္စား တို႔၏ ေရွ႕တြင္တည္၍ ယင္းတို႔ႏွင့္ မသက္ဆိုင္ေၾကာင္းျပေသာ စကား)။ မ…ပါ။ မ…ဘူး။ She likes most kinds of music but not jazz. ❍ ‘Who wants to come for a walk?’ ‘Not me!’ (ခ) (all, every တို႔၏ ေရွ႕တြင္တည္၍ အားလံုး မဟုတ္ေၾကာင္းျပေသာ စကား)။ မ …ဘူး။ Not everybody agrees with you. ❍ Not all children enjoy television. ၅။ (ေနာက္၌ လာေသာ ႀကိယာဝိေသသနပုဒ္စုတို႔ကို ဆန္႔က်င္ဘက္အနက္ သက္ေရာက္ ေစေသာ စကား)။ (ေဝးေဝးလံလံမဟုတ္) အနီးအနား။ (အၾကာႀကီး မဟုတ္) မၾကာခင္။ Somebody not a million miles from here (ie very close) is responsible for this mess. ❍ We plan to meet again in the not too distant future (ie quite soon). ❏ not at all [IDM] ၁။ ကိစၥမရိွပါဘူး။ ‘Thank you for all your help. ’ ‘Not at all. ’ ၂။ ရပါတယ္။ ‘Do you mind if I open the window?’ ‘Not at all. ’ ၃။ လံုးဝမ…ဘူး။ ‘Did you enjoy it?’ ‘Not at all. ’ ❏ not only…(but) also [ IDM ] …႐ံုတင္မက…လည္းပဲ။ He not only acts but also writes his own plays. ❏ not that [ IDM ] မေျပာေသာ္လည္း။ She hasn't written to me—not that she said she would. ေရးမယ္လို႔ မေျပာခဲ့ဘူး။ ေရးလည္းမေရးဘူး။

Examples

1. He would not listen to anything she said.
2. Barbara’s not coming to the party.
3. I don’t feel sorry for her.
4. Do not forget your promise.
5. They told me not to worry.
6. Not all children have the opportunity for pre-school education.
7. [not even] : The teacher could not even remember my name.
8. The oven’s not even warm yet.
9. [or not] : Are you coming with me or not?
10. [if not] : I’ll probably see you on Sunday; if not
11. it’ll be Monday.
12. [hope/suppose/think etc not] : ‘Is it going to be very expensive?’ ‘I hope not.’
13. It’s not much fun living with a drug addict.
14. I was astonished and not a little shocked by what she said.
15. Not surprisingly
16. Greg forgot to bring the key.
17. Did you not get my letter?
18. Isn’t it a beautiful day?
19. That was easy
20. wasn’t it?
21. Shouldn’t you have brought the washing in out of the rain?
22. Did I not tell you to be ready by ten o’clock?
23. We got there not five minutes before Fran arrived.
24. He was not three miles from home when his car broke down.
25. Oh no! Not another of Ronald’s stupid ideas.