Want

Definition

want /wɒnt; US also wↄ:nt/ v ၁။ ရခ်င္၊ လိုခ်င္သည္။ ဆႏၵရိွသည္။ …ေစခ်င္သည္။ They want a bigger house. ❍ The staff want a pay increase. ❍ She wants to go to Italy. ❍ She wants me to go with her. ❍ I didn't want that to happen. ❍ I want it (to be) done as quickly as possible. ❍ I don't want you arriving late. ❍ The people want him as their leader. ၂။ လိုအပ္သည္။ We'll want more furniture for the new office. ❍ Let me know how many copies you want. ❍ The plants want watering/want to be watered daily. ❍ I'm sure you don't want reminding of the need for discretion. ၃။ ( infml ) (not after I or we ) သင့္သည္။ အပ္သည္။ You want to be more careful. ❍ They want to make sure they're not cheated. ၄။ ~ sb (for sth) (usu passive) အလို ရိွသည္။ ေတာင့္တသည္။ You are wanted immediately in the director's office. ❍ He is wanted (for questioning) by the police (eg in connection with a crime). ၅။ (တစ္စံုတစ္ဦးအေပၚ) ရာဂစိတ္ ျဖစ္ေပၚသည္။ ၆။ ( fml ) လိုသည္။ မျပည့္စံု။ ခ်ဳိ႕တဲ့သည္။ He doesn't want courage. n ၁။ [C usu pl ] အလိုဆႏၵ။ လိုအင္။ He is a man of few wants. ❍ This book meets a long-felt want (ie has been needed for a long time). ❍ The hotel staff saw to all our wants. ၂။ [U, sing] ~ of sth မလံုေလာက္ျခင္း။ မဖူလံုျခင္း။ a want of food and medical supplies ❍ The plants died from want of water. ၃။ [U] ဆင္းရဲျခင္း။ ႏြမ္းပါးျခင္း။ ခ်ဳိ႕တဲ့ျခင္း။ live in want ❍ Their health had suffered from years of want. ❏ for want of sth [ IDM ] မရိွ၍။ လို၍။ She decided to accept the offer for want of anything better. ❍ He couldn't get a job, though not for want of trying. ❏ in want of sth [ IDM ] လိုအပ္ေနသည္။ The house is in want of repair. ❏ not want to know (about sth) [ IDM ] စိတ္မဝင္စား။ နားမၾကားခ်င္။ I asked him for help but he didn't want to know (about my problems). ❏ want for sth [ PHRV ] ( fml ) (အထူးသျဖင့္ ေမးခြန္းႏွင့္ ျငင္းပယ္ဝါက်၌ သံုးသည္။ ) ခ်ဳိ႕တဲ့သျဖင့္ ဒုကၡေရာက္သည္။ Those children want for nothing (ie have everything they need). ❏ want in/out [ PHRV ] ( infml ) ဝင္၊ ထြက္ခ်င္သည္။ The dog wants in — it's scratching at the door. ❏ want in/into sth [ PHRV ] ( infml esp US ) ပါခ်င္သည္။ He wants in on the deal. ❏ want out/out of sth [ PHRV ] ( infml esp US ) မပတ္သက္ ခ်င္ေတာ့။ မပါခ်င္ေတာ့။ He told them that he wanted out (of the gang).

Examples

1. Do you still want these old letters?
2. [want something for something] : What do you want for your birthday?
3. [want to do something] : Liz wants to see the gardens.
4. [want someone/something to do something] : Her parents didn’t want her to marry him.
5. [want something of/from someone] : I wish I knew exactly what they wanted of me.
6. [want something done] : Mrs Miller wants the entire house repainted.
7. I want those boxes out of the living room by tomorrow!
8. We want Stephen as chairman.
9. Mum wants you – she’s in the kitchen.
10. You’re wanted on the telephone.
11. The head wants you in her office after school.
12. We desperately want rain.
13. She wants help if she’s going to sort out her financial problems.
14. You won’t want much money on a camping holiday.
15. The supper dishes want washing.
16. This bill wants paying.
17. That rascal! He wants a good kick up the backside!
18. She wanted him more than ever.