Certainly not

Definition

certain /'sɜ:tn/ adj ၁။ ~ (that …) ; ~ (to do sth) ယံုမွားဖြယ္ မရိွ[ေသာ]။ ေသခ်ာ[ေသာ]။ စိတ္ခ်ႏိုင္[ေသာ]။ It is certain that he will agree/He is certain to agree. ❍ One thing is certain—I'm not coming here again. ၂။ ~ (that …) ; ~ (of/about sth) က်ိန္းေသ[ေသာ]။ I'm certain (that) she saw me. ❍ She saw me—I'm certain of that. ❍ I'm not certain (about) what she wants. ၃။ (ျဖစ္လာရန္)ေသခ်ာ ေသာ။ There is no certain cure for this disease. ❍ They face certain death unless they can be rescued today. ၄။ ထိုထိုေသာ။ For certain personal reasons I will be unable to attend the meeting. ❍ The terrorists will only release their hostages on certain conditions. ၅။ ဆိုေသာ။ ဟုဆို ေသာ။ A certain Mr Brown telephoned while you were out. ၆။ အနည္းငယ္။ အတန္ငယ္။ There was a certain coldness in her attitude towards me. ❍ I felt a certain reluctance to tell her the news. ❏ certain pron ~ of … အခ်ဳိ႕။ Certain of those present had had too much to drink. ❏ certainly adv ၁။ မုခ်။ ဧကန္။ မလြဲ။ မခြၽတ္။ He will certainly die if you don't call a doctor. ❍ I'm certainly never going there again. Compare SURELY ၂။ (ေျဖၾကား ရာ၌သံုးသည္။ ) ဟုတ္ကဲ့။ ရပါတယ္။ ‘May I borrow your pen for a moment?’ ‘Certainly. ’ ❏ certainly not adv ႀကံႀကံဖန္ဖန္။ ေတာက္တီးေတာက္တဲ့။ မဟုတ္ကဟုတ္က။ ႀကံႀကီးစည္ရာ။ ‘Do you let your children drink alcohol?’ ‘Certainly not!’ ❏ certainty /'sɜ:tnti/ n ၁။ [C] ဧကန္ျဖစ္ေသာအရာ။ က်ိန္း ေသ။ political/religious/moral certainties ❍ Her return to the team is now regarded as a certainty. ❍ That horse is a certainty to win the Derby. ၂။ [U] ေသခ်ာမႈ။ ဧကန္ဧက။ I can't say with any certainty where I'll be next week. ❍ There can be no certainty of success. ❏ for certain [ IDM ] ေသခ်ာေပါက္။ I couldn't say for certain when he'll arrive. ❍ I don't yet know for certain. ❏ make certain (that …) [ IDM ] ေသခ်ာေအာင္လုပ္ဖို႔လို တယ္။ ေသခ်ာပါေစ။ I think there's a train at 8.20 but you ought to make certain. ❏ make certain of sth/of doing sth [ IDM ] ေသခ်ာ ခ်င္ရင္ေတာ့။ စိတ္ခ်ခ်င္ရင္ေတာ့။ You'd better leave now if you want to make certain of getting there on time.

Examples

1. I’m not absolutely certain
2. but I think I’m right.
3. [certain (that)] : You can be pretty certain she’s not going to like it.
4. [certain who] : We still can’t be certain who is going to win.
5. [certain of/about] : I’ve never been more certain of anything in my entire life.
6. You don’t seem too certain about it.
7. [know/say for certain] : I think I met her in 1985
8. but I can’t say for certain.
9. They face certain death if they are sent back to their home country.
10. Success is by no means certain.
11. [be certain to do something] : Interest rates seem certain to rise next month.
12. [it is certain (that)] : It’s not certain that this method would have worked.
13. [certain of] : Mexico is now certain of a place in the finals.
14. One thing was certain: someone had been in his room.
15. [it is certain who] : It’s not yet certain who the driver of the car was.