Own

Definition

own /ǝƱn/ det , pron ၁။ (ကြၽႏု္ပ္၊ သူ၊ ယင္း စသည္) ၏၊ ရဲ႕။ (သူ၊ ကိုယ္) ပိုင္။ I saw it with my own eyes (ie I didn't hear about it from someone else). ❍ It was her own idea. ❍ This is my own house/This house is my own (ie not rented, etc). ❍ Our children are grown up and have children of their own. ❍ I have my very own room at last. ❍ Your day off is your own (ie You can spend it as you wish). ❍ For reasons of his own (ie particular reasons that perhaps only he knew about), he refused to join the club. ❍ The accident happened through no fault of her own. ❍ He wants to come into the business on his own terms. ၂။ (ကြၽႏု္ပ္၊ သူ၊ မိမိ၊ ယင္း စသည္) ၏၊ ရဲ႕၊ ပိုင္ စသည္။ She makes all her own clothes. ❍ He has to cook his own meals. v ၁။ ပိုင္သည္။ This house is mine; I own it. ❍ They owned just a few goats and some chickens. ❍ a privately/publicly/jointly owned company ❍ An investment trust owns 12% of the shares. ၂။ ( fml ) (က) ဝန္ခံသည္။ I own (that) it was entirely my fault. ❍ He owned the boy as his son. ❍ She was finally forced to own the truth. (ခ) ~ ( to sth/doing sth ) ဝန္ခံသည္။ She owned to a feeling of profound jealousy. ❏ come into one's/its own [ IDM ] အရည္အေသြး ျပႏိုင္သည္။ This car really comes into its own on rough ground. ❍ She really came into her own when the children were ill. ❏ get one's own back (on sb) [ IDM ] ( infml ) ကလဲ့စား ေခ်သည္။ I'll get my own back on him one day, I swear! ❏ hold one's own (against sb/sth) (in sth) [ IDM ] ေတာင့္ခံထားသည္။ Business isn't good but we're managing to hold our own. ❍ She can hold her own against anybody in an argument. ❍ The patient is holding her own although she is still very ill. ❏ (all) on one's own [ IDM ] ၁။ တစ္ကိုယ္တည္း။ တစ္ေယာက္တည္း။ I'm all on my own today. ❍ She lives on her own. ၂။ ကိုယ့္ဟာကိုယ္။ တစ္ကိုယ္တည္း။ He can be left to work on his own. ❍ ALONE ❏ own brand ( also Brit own label, US store brand) n အေရာင္းဆိုင္တံဆိပ္ျဖင့္ တင္သည့္ ကုန္ပစၥည္း။ He designs for both Chanel and his own brand. ❍ own label products. ❏ own goal n ( Brit ) (က) ကိုယ့္ဂိုးကိုယ္ သြင္းမိ ေသာဂိုး။ (ခ) သူတကာ ပြဲက်ေလာက္သည့္ မျဖစ္သင့္ေသာ ခြၽတ္ေခ်ာ္တိမ္းပါးမႈ။ The proposals threatened their own jobs and were seen as a spectacular own goal. ❏ own up (to sth/doing sth) [ PHRV ] ဝန္ခံသည္။ Nobody owned up to breaking the window. ❍ Eventually she owned up.

Examples

1. Everyone has their own idea of what democracy means.
2. You are free to do what you like in your own home.
3. [of your own] : She has two small children of her own.
4. A large school like this should really have a bus of its own.
5. [your very own] : The club now has its very own radio station.
6. Alan had always done his own washing and mending.
7. If she was disappointed
8. it was her own fault for expecting too much.
9. An achievement that was largely due to Stanley’s own efforts