Dictionary entry

Whether or not

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Definition

whether /'weðǝ(r)/ conj ၁။ (တစ္ခုမဟုတ္တစ္ခု၊ ႏွစ္ခုအနက္ တစ္ခုခု ေရြးခ်ယ္မႈသေဘာျပေသာစကားလံုး)။ (က) လား…လား။ မလား…မလား။ I don't know whether I'll be able to come. ❍ We'll be told tomorrow whether we're needed or not. ❍ We were wondering whether to go today or tomorrow. (Note that when there are two alternative clauses separated by or , whether is repeated. ) ❍ I asked him whether he had done it all himself or whether someone had helped him. Compare if ၄ (ခ) (after adjs and preps ) …ရမလား။ …ေကာင္းမလား။ …လား…လား။ …မလား…မလား။ …မလား …ဘူးလား။ She was undecided whether she should accept his offer. ❍ It was not clear whether the riots were political or religious. ❍ He hesitated about whether to drive or take the train. ❍ It all depends on whether it rains or not. (ဂ) …ရဲ႕လား။ …မလား…မလား။ It's doubtful whether there'll be any seats left. ❍ The question is whether to go to Munich or Vienna. ၂။ …ျဖစ္ေစ…ျဖစ္ေစ။ You are entitled to a free gift whether you apply by post or by phone. ❏ whether or not [ IDM ] (ျဖစ္ႏိုင္ေျခႏွစ္ခုအနက္ တစ္ခုခုသာ ျဖစ္မည့္သေဘာကို ရည္ၫႊန္း သံုးစြဲေသာ စကား)။ Whether or not it rains/Whether it rains or not, we're playing football on Saturday. မိုးရြာသည္ျဖစ္ေစ၊ မရြာသည္ျဖစ္ေစ…။ ❍ Let me know whether or not you're interested. စိတ္ဝင္စားျခင္း ရိွ၊ မရိွ…။ ❍ She'll go to their wedding, whether you like it or not. ႀကိဳက္ႀကိဳက္ မႀကိဳက္ႀကိဳက္…။ ❍ if

Examples

  1. They asked us whether we were married.
  2. There is some doubt as to whether the illness is infectious.
  3. [whether...or] : She doesn’t even know whether her daughter is dead or alive.
  4. [whether or not] : I still don’t know whether or not he’s planning to come.
  5. Employees are deciding whether to accept the offer.
  6. [whether or not] : There was a debate over whether or not to send troops.
  7. The journey
  8. whether by road or rail
  9. takes under four hours.
  10. [whether...or not] : Whether you like it or not
  11. you’ll have to change your lifestyle.
  12. [whether...or (whether)] : Whether we win or whether we lose
  13. we shall respect the democratic process.