Suppose

Definition

suppose /sǝ'pǝƱz/ v ၁။ ထင္သည္။ ယူဆသည္။ မွတ္ယူသည္။ What do you suppose he wanted? ❍ What makes you suppose (that) I'm against it? ❍ I don't suppose for a minute (that) he'll agree (ie I'm sure that he won't). ❍ She'll be there today, I suppose. ❍ I suppose you want to borrow money from me again (ie showing annoyance)? ❍ We'll have to walk home, I suppose (ie showing reluctance). ❍ I don't suppose you could help me (ie Please help me) with my homework. ❍ It was generally supposed that she would be re-elected. ❍ ‘Will he come?’ ‘Yes, I suppose so. ’ ❍ ( fml ) Everyone supposes him (to be) poor, but he is really quite wealthy. ❍ ( fml ) It was widely supposed to have been lost during the war. ၂။ (အကယ္တႏၲဳ၊ အကယ္၍၊ ဆိုပါစို႔ ဟူေသာ တစ္စံုတစ္ခုေသာ အေျခအေနကို) သတ္မွတ္ ၾကည့္သည္။ a theory which supposes the existence of other worlds besides our own ❍ Suppose (that) the news is true: what then? ❍ Suppose you had a million pounds—how would you spend it? ၃။ အႀကံျပဳခ်က္လုပ္သည္။ အႀကံျပဳသည္။ (ၾကစို႔လား၊ မေကာင္းလား စသည္ျဖင့္) ေရလာေျမာင္းေပး ေျပာသည္။ Suppose we don't tell anybody else about this. ❏ be supposed to do/be sth ၁။ …ရမည္။ …သင့္သည္။ Am I supposed to (ie Should I) clean all the rooms or just this one? ❍ You're supposed to pay the bill by Friday. ❍ They were supposed to be here an hour ago. ၂။ …ရန္ ခြင့္(မ)ျပဳ။ You're not supposed to walk on the grass. ၃။ ( infml ) ဆိုၾကသည္။ ေျပာၾကသည္။ It's supposed to be a marvellous film. ❍ She's supposed to have had hundreds of lovers. ❏ supposed /sǝ'pǝƱzd/ adj …ဟုဆိုေသာ။ His supposed confession was forged by the police. ❍ The supposed beggar was really a police officer in disguise. ❏ supposedly /sǝ'pǝƱzÇdli/ adv အဆိုအရေတာ့။ This picture is supposedly worth more than a million dollars. ❏ supposing (also supposing that ) conj အကယ္၍။ ဆိုပါေတာ့။ Supposing (that) you are wrong, what will you do then?

Examples

1. She was about 35
2. Dexter supposed.
3. The game was not as one-sided as we had supposed.
4. [suppose (that)] : I suppose she must be delighted about getting the job.
5. Scientists can only suppose that the illness is caused by a virus.
6. [be popularly/commonly/generally etc supposed] : Older people can learn much more quickly than is commonly supposed.
7. [reason to suppose (that)] : We have no reason to suppose that he’s done anything illegal.
8. There was good reason to suppose that she had left the country.
9. [suppose someone to be something] : She was accompanied by a man whom we supposed to be her husband.
10. [suppose (that)] : I suppose we could afford a new car.
11. You don’t suppose that he’s going to hurt anyone
12. do you?
13. [suppose (that)] : I suppose I had better get back to work.
14. Sarah supposed that she could stay with her parents if all else failed.
15. [suppose (that)] : The law supposes that parents know what is best for their children.
16. I suppose you realize you’ve ruined the carpet!