Listen

Definition

listen / 'lÇsn / v ၁။ ~ (to sb/sth) နားေထာင္သည္။ နာသည္။ We listened carefully but heard nothing. ❍ Listen! What’s that noise? ❍ You’re not listening to me/to what I’m saying! ❍ FEEL 1 ၂။ ~ (to sb/sth) နာခံသည္။ နားေထာင္ သည္။ I never listen to (ie believe) what salesmen tell me. ❍ I should never have listened to him. ❍ Why won’t you listen to reason? ❍ I warned her not to go but she wouldn’t listen. n (usu sing ) ( infml ) နားေထာင္ၾကည့္ျခင္း။ Have a listen and see if you like it. ❏ listener n (က) နားေထာင္သူ။ a good listener (ie sb who can be relied on to listen with attention or sympathy). (ခ) နားဆင္သူ။ ေသာတရွင္။ ❏ listen (out) for sth [ PHRV ] နားစြင့္သည္။ Please listen out for the phone while I’m in the garden. ❏ listen in (on/to sth) [ PHRV ] ၁။ နားေထာင္သည္။ listen in to the BBC World Service. ၂။ ေခ်ာင္း နားေထာင္သည္။ She loves listening in on other people’s conversations. ❍ The criminals did not know the police were listening in (eg by recording their telephone calls).

Examples

1. When he speaks
2. everybody listens.
3. [listen to] : Do you like listening to music?
4. [listen for] : She was listening for the sound of his key in the lock.
5. [listen carefully] : Listen carefully to the instructions.
6. I’ve tried to give Jerry advice
7. but he just won’t listen.
8. [listen to] : Don’t listen to him – he doesn’t know anything about it.