Quite a

Definition

quite / kwaÇt / adv ၁။ အေတာ္အတန္။ အေတာ္အသင့္။ အတန္အသင့္။ quite big/ small/ good/ cold/ warm/ interesting ❍ They had to wait quite a long time. ❍ He plays quite well. ❍ I quite like opera. ❍ I found the test quite hard. ❍ FAIRLY ၂။ ေတာ္ေတာ္။ အေတာ္။ He's quite happy at his new school ❍ You'll be quite comfortable here. ❍ I can see it quite clearly. ၃။ ေတာ္ေတာ္။ အေတာ္။ တကယ့္ကို။ quite delicious/ spectacular/ amazing/ incredible ❍ a quite extraordinary experience ❍ The view was quite breathtaking. ❍ That was quite the nicest meal I've ever had. ❍ She performed quite brilliantly. ၄။ တကယ့္ကို။ အဟုတ္ကို။ အေသအခ်ာ။ quite empty/ perfect/ enough ❍ Are you quite sure/ certain? ❍ He has quite recovered from his illness. ❍ I don't think that's quite right. ❍ I quite agree/ understand. ❍ ‘Do you mind waiting?’ ‘No, that's quite all right. ’ ၅။ (also fml quite so ) အဟုတ္ပါပဲ။ အမွန္ပါပဲ။ ‘It's not something we want to have talked about’. ‘Quite (so)’. ❍ ‘He's bound to feel shaken after his accident’. ‘Quite’. det တကယ့္ကို။ ေတာ္ေတာ့္ကို။ She's quite a beauty/ swimmer. ❍ We found it quite a change when we moved to London. ❍ He's quite the little gentleman, isn't he? ❏ not quite [ IDM ] ၁။ မ(ျပည့္၊ ရိွ၊ တူ စသည္) ေလာက္။ The theatre was not quite full. ❍ ‘There must be 1000 people here’. ‘Not quite that many’. ❍ It's almost like being in the Alps, but not quite. ၂။ မ(လြယ္၊ သိ၊ လိုက္ စသည္) လွ။ It wasn't quite as simple as I thought it would be. ❍ I don't quite know what to do next. ❍ Those shoes don't quite go with that dress. ❏ quite a lot (of) [ IDM ] ေတာ္ေတာ္မ်ားမ်ား။ We drank quite a lot of wine. ❏ quite a ; quite some / -sʌm / [ IDM ] ( approv esp US ) ႏွယ္ႏွယ္ရရမဟုတ္။ It must be quite some car. ❍ We had quite a party. ❏ quite something [ IDM ] နည္းနည္းေနာေနာမွတ္လို႔။ You decorated the whole house yourself? That's quite something!

Examples

1. I was feeling quite tired after our walk.
2. They said the dog was quite badly injured.
3. [quite a good/big etc something] : We had to wait for quite a long time.
4. There’s quite a steep slope down to the river.
5. He was quite a good musician.
6. Are you quite sure you know what to do?
7. It’s quite impossible to keep the house clean when all the children are here.
8. I don’t quite understand the problem.
9. The drawing’s not quite right.
10. They’re doing a marvellous job
11. but they haven’t quite finished.
12. ‘Are you ready?’ ‘Not quite.’
13. The organizers have achieved something quite extraordinary.
14. The hotel was dirty and the food was quite disgusting.
15. I’m not sure that ‘respect’ is quite the right word.
16. [not quite what/why/how etc] : I don’t know quite why you’ve come here and I suggest you leave.
17. We couldn’t quite remember where you lived.
18. ‘It’s not the kind of behaviour we expect from a teacher.’ ‘Quite.’
19. [quite so] : ‘It is most important that the matter should be kept secret.’ ‘Quite so.’
20. [quite right] : ‘Some laws are meant to be broken.’ ‘Quite right.’