Owe

Definition

owe /ǝƱ/ v ၁။ ~ (sb) for sth; ~ sth (to sb) အေႂကြးတင္သည္။ She owes $10 000. ❍ They owe me £150. ❍ He owes rent to Sam. ❍ I owe you for last night's meal. ၂။ ~ sth to sb/sth အရင္းခံသည္။ မီွးသည္။ He owes his success more to his contacts than to his ability. ❍ Her style owes much to Hemingway. ၃။ ~ sth to sb ဝတၱရား ရိွသည္။ owe one's parents respect ❍ owe loyalty to a political party ❍ We owe it to our customers to give them the best possible service. ၄။ ေက်းဇူးတင္သည္။ I owe my teachers a great deal. ❍ I owe a lot to my wife and children. ❏ owe sb one [ IDM ] ( infml ) ေက်းဇူးတံု႔ျပန္သည္။ Thanks, David. I owe you one.

Examples

1. Tell me how much I owe
2. and I’ll give it to you.
3. [owe someone something] : Pam still owes me £5.
4. [owe someone something for something] : How much do we owe you for the tickets?
5. [owe something to someone] : The companies owe as much as £200 billion to foreign lenders.
6. [owe someone something] : She feels she owes her fans another concert.
7. After the way she’s treated him
8. he doesn’t owe her anything.
9. [owe it to someone to do something] : They owe it to their children to try to save the marriage.
10. [owe it to yourself to do something] : I think you owe it to yourself to have a day off work.
11. I think you owe us at least a little respect.
12. [owe someone an apology/explanation] : Don’t you think you owe her an apology for the way you’ve behaved?
13. I think we owe them a letter.
14. [owe something to someone/something] : The company owes its success to its excellent training programme.
15. [owe much/a lot/a great deal to someone/something] : The cathedral clearly owes a great deal to French design.
16. [owe someone something] : We really owe you a great deal for all your hard work this year.