Now

Definition

now /naƱ/ adv ၁။ (က) ယခုအခ်ိန္။ ယခုအခါ။ Where are you living now? ❍ People used to go to the cinema, but now they watch television more. ❍ It's now ten years since we got married. (ခ) ယခု။ အခု။ ခု။ Now (eg After all these interruptions) I can get on with my work. ❍ Start writing now. ❍ I am now ready to answer your questions. (ဂ) (used after a prep or as the subject of a v ) ယခုအခ်ိန္။ I never realized I loved you until now. ❍ He should have arrived by now. ❍ Now is the best time to visit the gardens. Compare THEN ၁ ၂။ (စိတ္ကသိ ကေအာက္ျဖစ္သံပါေသာ စကား)။ ကဲ။ Now the government wants to tax food! ❍ What do you want now? ၃။ (က) (အခ်ိန္ကာလကို မရည္ၫႊန္း၊ အာ႐ံုကို ဆြဲေဆာင္လိုရာ၌ သံုးသည္။ ) အဲဒီလိုနဲ႔။ ဒါနဲ႔ပဲ။ အဲဒါ။ Now the country was ruled by a handsome prince. ❍ The phone's ringing. Now who can that be? (ခ) (အမိန္႔ေပးသံ၊ သတိေပးသံျဖင့္ သံုးေသာ စကား)။ ကိုင္းကိုင္း။ ကဲကဲ။ Now be quiet for a few moments and listen to this. ❍ No cheating, now. conj ~ (that)… လို႔မို႔။ ၿပီမို႔။ Now (that) you mention it, I do remember the incident. ❍ Now you've passed your test you can drive on your own. ❏ (every) now and again/ then [ IDM ] မၾကာခဏ။ ခဏခဏ။ I like to go to the opera now and then. ❍ Every now and again she checked to see if he was still asleep. ❏ now, now; now then [ IDM ] (သေဘာမက်ျခင္း၊ သတိ ေပးျခင္းကို ေဖာ္ျပေသာ စကား)။ ကဲ ကဲ။ Now, now,/ Now then, that's enough noise. ❏ now…now [ IDM ] ခုတစ္မ်ဳိး ခုတစ္မ်ဳိး။ Her moods kept changing—now happy, now sad. ❏ (it's) now or never [ IDM ] အခုလုပ္လွ်င္လုပ္။ အခုသည္ အေကာင္းဆံုးအခ်ိန္။ If you want to ask her to marry you, it's now or never. She's leaving the country tomorrow. ❏ now for sb/ sth [ IDM ] (အေၾကာင္းအရာသစ္၊ လုပ္ငန္းသစ္ ကို စတင္ရန္ နိဒါန္းခ်ီေသာ စကား)။ ကဲ အခုကစၿပီး။ Now for a quick swim before lunch. ❍ And now for some travel news. ❏ now then [ IDM ] ၁။ = Now, Now ၂။ ကိုင္း။ ကဲ။ Now then, who wants to come for a walk?

Examples

1. He is now 48 years old.
2. She’s been very ill
3. but she’s much better now.
4. [by/before now] : The meeting should have finished by now.
5. I’ve never been to a formal dinner party before now
6. and I’m not quite sure how to behave.
7. [from now on] : Nancy will be working full-time from now on.
8. [as of now] : The rule will take effect as of now.
9. [for now] : Prices will remain unchanged for now.
10. Goodbye for now.
11. [up to now/until now] : Until now
12. we’ve had very mild weather this winter.
13. [right now] : Right now I’m not interested in dating – I need to spend some time alone.
14. [not now] : ‘Can I ask you a question?’ ‘Not now – I’m busy.’
15. [now is the time/moment] : Now is the time to look forward
16. make plans for the future
17. and work together.
18. If everyone else has finished in the bathroom
19. I’ll have my shower now.
20. [right now] : ‘Can you call me back?’ ‘No
21. I need to talk to you right now.’
22. It’s three years now since I moved south from Scotland.
23. The farm workers have been there for about two weeks now.
24. Having inherited the money
25. she knew that things would now be much better.
26. [now (that)] : Now that the war is over
27. there is a lot more food in the shops.
28. Now I’m back here
29. I can hardly walk down a street without seeing someone I know.
30. Now I see why she didn’t want to go with me – she was interested in George.
31. We ran down the road and past the house
32. which was now hidden in the darkness.
33. Now come on
34. tell me what’s been happening.
35. Don’t forget now – phone me tomorrow.
36. Now that’s what I like about Harry – he’s always cheerful.
37. Now
38. listen everybody.
39. Now
40. about next week’s programme – we’ve had to make a few changes.
41. [now then] : Now then
42. are there any more questions?
43. He was 20 when he moved to the city. Now
44. you have to remember that was 30 years ago.
45. Now
46. let me think.