When

Definition

when /wen/ interrog adv ဘယ္တုန္းက။ ဘယ္ေတာ့။ မည္သည့္ အခ်ိန္။ When can you come? ❍ When did he die? ❍ I don't know when he died. ❍ When were you living in Spain? rel adv ၁။ (အခ်ိန္၊ ေန႔၊ ရက္၊ လ ေနာက္၌သံုးသည္။ ) …သည့္ (ေန႔၊ ရက္၊ အခ်ိန္)။ Sunday is the day when I can relax. ❍ There are times when I wonder why I do this job. ❍ It was the sort of morning when everything goes wrong. ၂။ ေသာအခ်ိန္။ ေသာအခါ။ The last time I went to Scotland was in May, when the weather was beautiful. pron ဘယ္အခ်ိန္။ ဘယ္အခါ။ Until when can you stay? ❍ I saw her last Friday, since when I've phoned her twice. conj ၁။ ေသာအခါ။ တုန္းက။ သည့္အခိုက္။ It was raining when we arrived. ❍ When he saw me, he waved. ❍ When I'm in London, I usually go to the theatre. ၂။ သည့္အတြက္။ ရကား။ How can they expect to learn anything when they never listen. ဘယ္တုန္းကမွ နား မေထာင္တာ ဘာသြားတတ္မလဲ။ ၃။ လ်က္ႏွင့္။ ေသာ္လည္း။ ေပမဲ့။ She claimed to be 18, when I know she's only 16.

Examples

1. When will we know our test results?
2. When did the trouble start?
3. I asked him when he was going to start work.
4. ‘You’ll get your money back.’ ‘Yes
5. but when?’
6. [since when] : Since when have you been in charge of the project?
7. When should I end a letter with ‘Yours sincerely’?
8. When is it OK to hug someone that you’ve just met?
9. He didn’t say when they would leave.
10. It is important to know when you have had enough to drink.
11. When it stops raining
12. I’ll show you the garden.
13. I always wear a hat when I work in the garden.
14. [when doing something] : She was often nervous when facing the camera.
15. She claims she was at a friend’s house when the shooting took place.
16. The biggest surprise for Josie was when she was chosen as team captain.
17. [the time/day/year etc when] : Do you remember the time when we took your mother camping?
18. There are some days when everything seems to go wrong.
19. Why does she always drive to work when she could easily take the train?
20. He went on protesting his innocence when he was obviously guilty.
21. We use ‘an’ when the next word begins with a vowel.
22. Tonic water makes a refreshing drink when served with ice and lemon.