Already

Definition

already /ↄ:l'redi/ adv ၁။ (က) အတိတ္ကာလမွရည္ၫႊန္းေသာ အခ်ိန္ မတိုင္မီက။ ၿပီးႏွင့္ၿပီ။ (ေရာက္၊ ရိွ၊ သြား) ႏွင့္ၿပီ။ I've already seen this film, so I'd rather go and see another one. ❍ The teacher was already in the room when I arrived. ❍ She had already left when I phoned. (ခ) ပစၥဳပၸန္ကာလမတိုင္မီကပင္။ (ေရာက္၊ ရိွ) ေနႏွင့္ၿပီ။ There are too many people here already. ၂။ (က) (စ၊ ေရာက္၊ ရိွ စသည္) ႏွင့္ၿပီ (လား)။ Have your children started school already? ❍ Is it 10 o'clock already? (ခ) (ျငင္းပယ္ ပုဒ္မ်ားႏွင့္)။ ယခုပင္။ အခုပဲ။ You're not leaving already, are you?

Examples

1. He’s only 24
2. but he’s already achieved worldwide fame.
3. The gang leader had already left the country.
4. Put your wallet away. I’ve already paid for everything.
5. By the time the doctor arrived
6. I was already beginning to feel better.
7. Why waste time telling people things that they already know?
8. Are you tired already? I don’t believe it!
9. Is it twelve o’clock already?
10. Look
11. I already have enough problems as it is.
12. We must hurry – we’re twenty minutes late already.
13. Hillary Clinton: pick Elizabeth Warren as your running mate already!