Be

Definition

be /bi; strong form bi:/ v ၁။ (used after there and before a, an, no, some, etc + n ) (က) ရိွသည္။ တည္ရိွသည္။ There are no easy answers. ❍ There are many such people. ❍ Once upon a time there was a princess. ❍ There have been cows in that field since my grandfather's time. ❍ Is there a God? ❍ For there to be life there must be air and water. (ခ) ရိွသည္။ There's a bus-stop down the road. ❍ There were no books on the shelf. ❍ There are some good photographs in this exhibition. ၂။ (အခ်ိန္)ရိွၿပီ။ It's half past two. ❍ It was late at night when we finally arrived. ၃။ ( adv , prepositional phrase ႏွင့္တြဲ၍ ေနရာျပ၊ အခ်ိန္ျပစကား)။ (က) (၌၊ မွာ၊ တြင္) ရိွသည္။ The lamp is on the table. ❍ The stable is a mile away. ❍ Mary's upstairs. ❍ John's out in the garden. ❍ They are on holiday in Italy. (ခ) (၌၊ မွာ၊ တြင္) ျဖစ္သည္။ The party is after work. ❍ The election was on Monday. ❍ The concert will be in the school hall. ❍ The meeting are on Tuesdays and Thursdays in the main hall. (ဂ) ရိွေနသည္။ ျဖစ္ ေနသည္။ She has been in her room for hours. ❍ They're here till Christmas. ❍ The situation is the same as when I last spoke to you. (ဃ) ရိွသည္။ Were you at church yesterday? ❍ I'll be at the party. ၄။ ( adv , prepositional phrase ျဖင့္ တြဲ၍ သြားရာ၊ ျဖစ္ရာ၊ လာရာ အရပ္ျပစကား)။ သြားသည္။ ေရာက္သည္။ လာသည္။ I'll be on my way very soon. ❍ She's from Italy (ie her native country is Italy). ❍ He'll be here soon, I'm sure. ၅။ ( adv , Prepositional phrase ျဖင့္တြဲ၍ ဦးတည္ရာျပစကား။ perfect tense ျဖင့္သာသံုးသည္။ ) သြားသည္။ ေရာက္သည္။ I've never been to Spain. ❍ She had been abroad many times. ❍ Has the postman been (ie called) yet? ❍ BEEN ၆။ (အေျခအေန၊ အေနအထားျပစကား)။ ရိွသည္။ ျဖစ္သည္။ Life is unfair. ❍ The earth is round. ❍ He is ten years old. ❍ Be quick! ❍ ‘How are you?’ ‘I'm quite well, thanks. ’ ❍ I am of average height. ❍ She's a great beauty. ၇။ (မည္သည့္ပစၥည္းျဖစ္ေၾကာင္းျပ စကား)။ ျဖင့္ျပဳလုပ္သည္။ Is your jacket real leather? ၈။ (အမည္၊ အလုပ္အကိုင္၊ ဝါသနာ စသည္ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္းျပစကား)။ ျဖစ္သည္။ Today is Monday. ❍ You are the man I want. ❍ ‘Who is that?’ ‘It's my brother. ’ ❍ Susan is a doctor. ❍ Peter is an amateur painter in his spare time. ❍ He wants to be (ie become) a fireman when he grows up. ၉။ (ပိုင္ဆိုင္မႈျပ စကား)။ ျဖစ္သည္။ The money's not yours, it's John's (ie It belongs to John and not to you). ❍ This parcel is for you. ၁၀။ (အေရအတြက္၊ တန္ဖိုးရိွေၾကာင္းျပစကား)။ (က) တန္သည္။ ‘How much is that dress?’ ‘It's £50. ’ (ခ) ႏွင့္ညီမွ်သည္။ Twice two is four. ❍ Three and three is six. ❍ Four threes are twelve. ❍ How much is a thousand dollars in pounds? (ဂ) ျဖစ္သည္။ ( saying ) Two is company; three's a crowd. ❍ London is not England (ie Do not think that all of England is like London). (ဃ) (ကိုယ္စားျပဳေၾကာင္းျပစကား)။ ျဖစ္သည္။ Let x be the sum of a and b. (င) (ဆိုလိုေၾကာင္းျပစကား)။ ျဖစ္သည္။ Winning the award was everything to her. ❍ A thousand dollars is nothing to a rich man. /bi; strong form bi:/ aux v ၁။ (passive voice ကိုေဖာ္ျပရန္ past participle ႏွင့္တြဲသံုးရသည့္ အကူႀကိယာ)။ ျပဳျခင္း၊ ျဖစ္ျခင္း ခံရသည္။ He was killed in the war. ❍ Where were they made? ❍ The thief was caught. ❍ The house is/was being built. ❍ You will be severely punished if you do not obey. ၂။ (ျပဳဆဲ၊ ျဖစ္ဆဲ ႀကိယာသဏၭာန္ႏွင့္ တြဲသံုးရသည့္ အကူႀကိယာ)။ They are/were reading. ❍ I am studying Chinese. ❍ I'll be seeing him soon. ❍ What have you been doing this week? ❍ I'm always being criticized. ၃။ (with to + infinitive) (က) (လိုအပ္ခ်က္၊ ၫႊန္ၾကားခ်က္ စသည္ကို ေဖာ္ျပရာ၌သံုးေသာ အကူႀကိယာ)။ I am to phone them once I reach the airport. ❍ You are to report to the police. ❍ What is to be done about this problem? (ခ) (အစီအစဥ္ေဖာ္ျပရာ၌ သံုးေသာ အကူႀကိယာ)။ They are to be married in June. ❍ Each participant was to pay his own expenses. (ဂ) (ျဖစ္ႏိုင္ေျခကိုေဖာ္ျပရာ၌သံုးေသာ အကူႀကိယာ)။ The book was not to be (ie could not be) found. (ဃ) (ကံတရားေဖာ္ျပရာ၌သံုးေသာ အကူႀကိယာ)။ He was never to see his wife again (ie Although he did not know it would be so at the time, he did not see her again). ❍ She wanted to write a successful novel but it was not to be (ie It turned out never to happen). (င) (were ပံုသဏၭာန္ျဖင့္သံုးသည္။ ) ျဖစ္ခဲ့ေသာ္။ If I were to tell you/Were I to tell you that I made it myself, would you believe me? ❍ If it were to rain, we would have to cancel the match tomorrow. ❏ …as/that was [ IDM ] ယခင္က။ Miss Brown that was (ie before her marriage) ❍ ‘Where's the Concert Hall?’ ‘It's the Odeon Cinema as was, in the High Street. ❏ the be-all and end-all (of sth) [ IDM ] ( infml ) အဓိကပဲ။ အသက္ပဲ။ Her boyfriend is the be-all and end-all of her existence. ❏ (he, she, etc has) been and done sth [ IDM ] ( infml ) (စိတ္အေႏွာင့္အယွက္ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း၊ အံ့အားတသင့္ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္းျပ စကား)။ လုပ္ျပန္ၿပီ။ လုပ္ခ်လိုက္ျပန္ၿပီ။ Someone's been and parked in front of the entrance! ❏ be one self [ IDM ] ကိုယ့္နဂိုအတိုင္း။ Don't act sophisticated—just be yourself. ❏ be that as it may [ IDM ] ေသာ္လည္း။ ေပမည့္။ I accept that he's old and frail; be that as it may, he's still a fine politician. ❏ leave/let sb/sth be [ IDM ] ( infml ) ေနပါေစ။ လႊတ္ထား လိုက္။ Leave her be, she obviously doesn't want to talk about it. ❍ Let the poor dog be (ie Don't annoy it). ❏ -to-be [ IDM ] (in compounds) …ေလာင္း။ his bride-to-be. ❍ mothers-to-be (ie pregnant women).

Examples

1. Is everyone listening?
2. I’m studying English Literature.
3. We were having breakfast when Terry phoned.
4. Her husband was killed in a car accident.
5. The orchestra will be conducted by David Norton.
6. Calvin Schultz is our Marketing Director.
7. He wants to be an actor when he leaves school.
8. It was a cold frosty morning.
9. Baltimore is not far from Washington.
10. Tom’s from a small town in Canada.
11. Who’s in charge of the Finance Department?
12. Nancy is tall and very thin.
13. Be quiet! I can’t hear what they’re saying.
14. He’s just being silly again – pay no attention.
15. A way of life that has long since ceased to be