What

Definition

what /wɒt/ interrog det (အေမးစကား)။ ဘာ။ ဘယ္။ မည္သည့္။ What time/date is it? ❍ What books have you got on the subject? ❍ What number did you ring? ❍ What kind of music do you like? ❍ which interrog pron (အေမးနာမ္စား)။ ဘာ။ ဘယ္။ What did you say? ❍ What (ie What job) does he do? ❍ What are you reading/sewing/thinking? ❍ What's the time/date? ❍ What does it mean? ❍ What do you want to do now? det ထို။ အဲဒီ။ I spent what little time I had with my family. ❍ What family and friends I still have live abroad. pron ထိုအရာ။ ဘယ္အရာ။ ထိုဟာ။ ဘယ္ဟာ။ What you say may well be true. ❍ No one knows what will happen next. det , adv (တအံ့တဩႏွင့္ေျပာေသာစကား)။ အလိုေလးေလး။ အားပါးပါး။ …လိုက္တဲ့။ What (awful) weather we're having! ❍ What a lovely view! ❍ What big feet you've got! interj ၁။ ( infml ) (မၾကား၍ ျပန္ေမးေသာစကား)။ ဘာေျပာတယ္။ ဘာ။ ဘယ္လို။ What? Can you say that again? ၂။ ( infml ) (ျပန္ထူးေသာစကား)။ ဘာတံုး။ ဘာလဲ။ ‘Hey, Bill!’ ‘What?’ ‘Where's the corkscrew?’ ၃။ (မယံုၾကည္ေၾကာင္း၊ အံ့ဩေၾကာင္း ျပေသာစကား)။ ဘာ။ ဘယ္လို။ ‘I've won a trip to New York. ’ ‘What?’ ❍ ‘It will cost £500. ’ ‘What?’ ❏ and what not [ IDM ] ( infml ) စသည္ စသည္။ ဘာေတြ ညာေတြ။ It's full of old toys, books and what not. ❏ get/give sb what for [ IDM ] ( Brit infml ) ျပင္းထန္စြာ အျပစ္ေပးခံရသည္။ ျပင္းျပင္းထန္ထန္ အျပစ္ေပးသည္။ I'll give her what for if she does that again. ❏ what-d'you-call-him/-her/-it/-them (also what's-his/-her/-its/-their-name ) n (အမည္ ႐ုတ္တရက္ စဥ္းစား မရ၍ သံုးေသာစကား)။ ဦးဘယ္သူ။ မဘယ္ဝါ။ ဟဝါ။ ဟိုဒင္း။ ဟိုဟာ။ She's just gone out with old what-d'you-call-him. ❏ what for? [ IDM ] ဘာအတြက္လဲ။ ဘာအေၾကာင္းေၾကာင့္လဲ။ ဘာလုပ္ဖို႔လဲ။ What is this tool for? ❍ ( infml ) What did you do that for? (ie Why did you do that?) ❍ ‘I need to go to the doctor. ’ ‘What for?’ ❏ what if? [ IDM ] (ဒါျဖစ္ရင္) ဘာျဖစ္မလဲ။ ဘယ္လို ျဖစ္မလဲ။ …ရင္ေကာ။ What if the train is late? ❍ What if she forgets to bring it? ❏ what of it?; so what? [ IDM ] ( infml ) အဲဒါ ဘာျဖစ္လဲ။ အဲဒီေတာ့ဘာျဖစ္လဲ။ Yes, I wrote it. What of it? ❏ what's what [ IDM ] ( infml ) ဘယ္သင္းက ဘာဆိုတာ။ She certainly knows what's what. ❏ what with sth [ IDM ] အဲဒါ အဲဒါေတြေၾကာင့္။ What with the cold weather and my bad leg, I haven't been out for weeks.

Examples

1. What’s your name?
2. What time is it?
3. What was the weather like?
4. I asked her what kind of music she liked.
5. People sometimes ask me what I’m going to do when I retire.
6. ‘I’m worried
7. Harry.’ ‘What about?’
8. I told him what the problem was.
9. She wasn’t quite sure what she was going to say.
10. We suddenly realized what was happening.
11. I haven’t even thought about what I’m going to wear to the dinner.
12. [what to do/say/think etc] : Poor Kevin! He doesn’t know what to do.
13. You haven’t given me what I asked for.
14. What you need is a good long holiday.
15. What annoys me is the way he boasts about what he’s done.
16. George always does his best
17. and that’s what I like about him.
18. Tom eagerly finished up what was left of the champagne and chicken pie.
19. What little free time he had was spent with the family.
20. What awful weather we’ve been having!
21. What a nice surprise!
22. What a nuisance for you
23. having to make all these changes.
24. What! Are they still in bed?
25. What! You mean he can’t read or write?
26. ‘Turn the radio down
27. will you?’ ‘What?’
28. You’ll have to pay rent
29. which is
30. what
31. about £300 a month or something like that.
32. ‘Hey
33. Julie!’ ‘What?’ ‘Come here – I’ve got something to show you.’