Strange to say…

Definition

strange /streÇndʒ/ adj ( -r , -st ) ၁။ ထူးျခားေသာ။ ဆန္းျပားေသာ။ It's strange we haven't heard from him. ❍ He wears the strangest clothes. ❍ She has some very strange ideas. ❍ I find their attitude strange. ❍ It feels strange to be visiting the place again after all these years. ၂။ ~ (to be) သူစိမ္းတစ္ရံဆံျဖစ္ေသာ။ ထူးဆန္းေသာ။ စိမ္းေသာ။ a strange country/town/neighbourhood ❍ Never accept lifts from strange men. ❍ At first the place was strange to me. ၃။ ေနမထိထိုင္မသာျဖစ္ေသာ။ It was terribly hot and I started to feel strange. ၄။ အေနက်ပ္ေသာ။ အေန က်ံဳ႕ေသာ။ She felt very strange among these people she had never met before. ❏ strangely adv ထူးထူးျခားျခား။ အံ့ဖြယ္သရဲ။ She's been acting very strangely lately. ❍ The house was strangely quiet. ❍ It turned out we'd been at school together, strangely enough. strangeness n [U] ❏ strange to say… [ IDM ] အံ့ဩဖြယ္ေကာင္းသည္မွာ။ Strange to say, I don't really enjoy television.

Examples

1. By a strange coincidence
2. we were both staying at the same hotel.
3. [it is/seems strange that] : It seemed strange that she would leave so early.
4. [the strange thing is] : The strange thing is
5. I was the only one there.
6. [for some strange reason] : For some strange reason
7. she didn’t even say ‘hello’.
8. Ian really is a bit of a strange bloke.
9. He had a strange and frightening expression.
10. When you arrive in a new country
11. everything seems strange.
12. A strange accent
13. She felt a strange tingling in the back of her neck.
14. I always feel strange in a large group of people.