Ever

Definition

ever /'evǝ(r)/ adv ၁။ (usu in negative sentences and questions, or sentences expressing doubt or condition; usu placed before the v ) တစ္ခ်ိန္ခ်ိန္တြင္။ တစ္ခ်ိန္လံုး။ တစ္ႀကိမ္တစ္ခါမွ်။ Nothing ever happens in this place. ❍ Don't you ever wish you were rich? ❍ If you ever visit this country, you must come and stay with us. ❍ She seldom, if ever (ie perhaps never), goes to the cinema. ❍ I hardly ever (ie rarely) see them nowadays. ❍ All he ever does is complain. ❍ ( infml ) I'm never ever going to speak to her again! သူ႕ကို ေနာက္ဘယ္ေတာ့မွ စကား မေျပာေတာ့ဘူး။ ၂။ (with the perfect tenses in questions) … ဖူး (သလား)။ ‘Have you ever been in a helicopter?’ ‘No, never. ’ ❍ ‘Have you ever seen an elephant?’ ‘Yes, I have. ’ ၃။ (with comparatives after than or with superlatives) ခါတိုင္းထက္။ အရင္ထက္။ … ဖူးသမွ်ထက္။ It's raining harder than ever. ❍ This is the best work you've ever done. ❍ her best ever score ❍ He loved her more than ever. ၄။ (က) အၿမဲ။ အစဥ္။ Paul, ever the optimist, agreed to give it one last try. ❍ Her novels are as popular as ever (ie as popular as they always have been). ❍ They rode off into the sunset and lived happily ever after (ie for the rest of their lives). ❍ ‘Who won?’ ‘She did, as ever. ’ ❍ He told me he would love me for ever (and ever). (ခ) (with comparatives) တိုး၍တိုး၍။ ပို၍ပို၍။ His debts grew ever larger. See also FOREVER ၅။ ever- (in compounds) အၿမဲ…။ the ever-growing problem ❍ an ever-present threat ❍ the ever-increasing cost of food. ၆။ (when, where စသည္ေနာက္တြင္ထား၍ အံ့ဩမႈ၊ သံသယျဖစ္မႈကို အထူးျပဳေဖာ္ျပေသာ စကားလံုး)။ When/Where/How ever did you lose it? ❍ What ever do you mean? ❏ did you ever (…)! [ IDM ] ( infml ) (အေျဖမေမွ်ာ္လင့္ေသာ ေမးခြန္း၊ အံ့ဩျခင္း၊ သံသယျဖစ္ျခင္း စသည္၌သံုးေသာ စကားလံုး)။ … ဖူး (ၾက) ရဲ႕လား။ Did you ever hear such nonsense! ❍ Opening the palace to the public — well, I mean, did you ever! ❏ ever more [ IDM ] ( fml ) ပို၍ပို၍။ She became ever more nervous as the interview continued. ❏ ever since (…) [ IDM ] (used as a compound conj , prep or adv ) ကတည္းက။ တုန္းကပဲ။ I've known him ever since we were at school together. ❍ She has been depressed ever since her sister's death. ❍ He was bitten as a toddler and has been afraid of dogs ever since. ❏ ever so/ever such (a) [ IDM ] ( infml esp Brit ) အလြန္ တရာ။ အလြန္႔အလြန္။ ever such a handsome man ❍ He's ever so rich. ❏ if ever there was (one) [ IDM ] ( infml ) (အေလးအနက္ ျပဳစကား)။ အဲဒါမ်ဳိး ျဖစ္ခဲ့၊ ရိွခဲ့ဖူး တယ္ ဆိုရင္ (ဒါမ်ဳိးပဲျဖစ္မယ္)။ That was a fine lunch if ever there was one! ❍ If ever there was an idiotic idea, this was it! ❏ yours ever/ever yours [ IDM ] (ေပးစာအဆံုးတြင္ လက္မွတ္မထိုးမီ ေရးေသာ စကား)။ ထာဝစဥ္သင့္။

Examples

1. If you ever need any help
2. just let me know.
3. Was Desmond ever in the army?
4. [have you ever done something?] : Have you ever been to Cape Town?
5. [hardly ever] : It hardly ever rains here in the summer.
6. [rarely/seldom
7. if ever] : The method seldom
8. if ever
9. fails.
10. Don’t ever do that again.
11. It was the only serious question he had ever asked me.
12. [never ever] : We must never ever forget how those brave men fought for our freedom.
13. [first/last/only...ever] : Trevor Boulton is celebrating his first victory ever in the tournament.
14. [more/bigger/better etc than ever] : Isabel’s looking lovelier than ever.
15. [the most/biggest/best etc ever] : Thailand’s largest ever trade fair
16. The tax laws grow ever more complex.
17. Our aim is an ever closer union of nation states.