Talking

Definition

know /nǝƱ/ v ( pt knew / nju:; US nu:/; pp known /nǝƱn/) ၁။ (က) သိသည္။ နားလည္သည္။ She doesn't know your address. ❍ Every child knows (that) two and two make four. ❍ I knew where he was hiding. ❍ He did it without my knowing. ❍ Does he know to come here (ie that he should come here) first? ❍ We know her to be honest. (ခ) သိသည္။ ႀကံဳသည္။ I've never known it (to) snow in July before. ဇူလိုင္လမွာ ႏွင္းက်တာ ကြၽန္ေတာ္ျဖင့္ မႀကံဳဖူးဘူး။ ၂။ သိသည္။ I know (that) it’s here somewhere⚠ ၃။ သိသည္။ ကြၽမ္းသည္။ Do you know Bob Hill? ❍ I know Paris well. ❍ I know him by sight, but not to talk to (ie I have seen him but never spoken to him). ၄။ ~ sb/sth as sth (esp passive) (က) လူသိ မ်ားသည္။ ေက်ာ္ၾကားသည္။ It's known as the most dangerous part of the city. ❍ He's known to be an outstanding physicist. (ခ) ေခၚသည္။ Peter Wilson, also known as The Tiger ❍ This area is known as the ‘Cornish Riviera’. ၅။ ~ sb/sth (from sb/sth) (ခြဲျခား) သိသည္။ (ျမင္သည္ႏွင့္) သိသည္။ know right from wrong ❍ She knows a bargain when she sees one. ၆။ တတ္သည္။ ကြၽမ္းသည္။ know Japanese ❍ Do you know how to use a word processor? ၇။ ႀကံဳဖူးသည္။ a man who has known both poverty and riches. ❏ before one knows where one is [ IDM ] ႐ုတ္တရက္။ လ်င္ျမန္စြာ။ We were whisked off in a taxi before we knew where we were. ❏ be known to sb [ IDM ] အေၾကာင္းသိ အေပါင္းသိ ျဖစ္သည္။ He's known to the police (ie as a criminal). ❏ God/goodness/Heaven knows [ IDM ] ၁။ ဘုရားမွ သိမွာပဲ။ ဘုရားပဲသိမယ္။ ‘Where are they?’ ‘Goodness knows’. ၂။ ဘုရားသိပါတယ္။ She ought to succeed; goodness knows she tries hard enough. ❏ in the know [ IDM ] ( infml ) အတြင္းသိ ျဖစ္သည္။ Somebody in the know told me he's about to resign. ❏ know about sth [ PHRV ] သိသည္၊ (မ)သိရ။ Not much is known about his background. ❍ Do you know about Jack getting arrested? ❏ know-all ( US know-it-all ) n ( infml derog ) လူတတ္ႀကီး။ She's a real know-all. ❏ know sth as well as I/ you do [ IDM ] မင္းကိုယ္တိုင္ သိပါတယ္။ မင္းလည္း သိသားပဲ။ You know as well as I do that you're being unreasonable. ❏ know sth backwards [ IDM ] ( infml ) ပယ္ပယ္နယ္နယ္။ အၿမီးျပန္ေခါင္းျပန္။ You've read that book so many times you must know it backwards by now⚠ ❏ know best [ IDM ] အသိဆံုးပဲ။ The doctor told you to stay in bed, and he knows best. ❏ know better (than that/than to do sth) [ IDM ] ဒီေလာက္ေတာ့ အသိဉာဏ္ရိွဖို႔ ေကာင္းတယ္၊ သိသင့္တယ္။ You ought to know better (than to trust her). ❍ You left the car unlocked? You should know better than that. ❏ know different/otherwise [ IDM ] ( infml ) မဟုတ္မွန္း သိသည္။ He says he was at the cinema, but I know different. ❏ know-how n [U] ကြၽမ္းက်င္မႈ။ financial know-how ❍ We need somebody with the know-how to check the equipment. ❏ know sb/sth inside out; know sb/sth like the back of one's hand [ IDM ] ( infml ) ေနာေက်သည္။ He's a taxi driver , so he knows the city like the back of his hand. ❏ know no bounds [ IDM ] ( fml ) အတိုင္းအဆမရိွ။ Her love/generosity/fury knew no bounds. ❏ know of sb/sth [ PHRV ] သိသည္။ ၾကားဖူးသည္။ ‘Isn't tomorrow a holiday?’ ‘Not that I know of (ie Not as far as I am aware). ’ ❍ Do you know of any way to stop a person snoring? ❍ I don't know him personally, though I know of him. ❏ know one's onions ; ( Brit ) know one's stuff [ IDM ] ( infml ) ပါရဂူေျမာက္သည္။ တစ္ဖက္ကမ္း ခပ္သည္။ ❏ know one's own mind [ IDM ] မိမိစိတ္ဆႏၵကို ျပတ္ျပတ္ သားသား သိသည္။ ❏ know the score [ IDM ] ( infml ) သေဘာေပါက္သည္။ He knows the score: if he's late for work again he'll lose his job. ❏ know one's way around [ IDM ] ကြၽမ္းသည္။ ❏ know what it is/what it's like (to be/do sth) [ IDM ] ႀကံဳဖူးသည္။ Many famous people have known what it is to be poor. ❏ know what one's talking about [ IDM ] ( infml ) ကိုယ္ေတြ႕မ်က္ျမင္အရ ေျပာသည္။ I've lived in China, so I know what I'm talking about. ❏ know which side one's bread is buttered [ IDM ] ( infml ) အကြက္ျမင္သည္။ ❏ let it be known/make it known that… [ IDM ] အတိအလင္းေျပာသည္။ He's let it be known that he wants no presents when he retires. ❏ let sb know [ IDM ] အေၾကာင္းၾကားမည္။ I don't know if I can come, but I'll let you know tomorrow. ❏ make oneself known to sb [ IDM ] မိမိကိုယ္ကို မည္သူ မည္ဝါျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း သိေစသည္။ I made myself known to the hotel manager. ❏ not know any better [ IDM ] မသိရွာလို႔ပါ။ Don't blame the children — they don't know any better. ❏ not know one's arse from one's elbow [ IDM ] ( ⚠ sl derog ) ဖင္မွန္းေခါင္းမွန္းမသိ။ ❏ not know the first thing about sb/sth/doing sth [ IDM ] နကန္းတစ္လံုးမွ် မသိ။ I'm afraid I don't know the first thing about gardening. ❏ not know sb from Adam [ IDM ] ( infml ) တစ္ခါမွ် မၾကားဖူးဘူး။ တစ္ခါမွ် မသိဖူးဘူး။ ❏ not know the meaning of the word [ IDM ] ၾကား ေတာင္ၾကားဖူးမယ္ မထင္ဘူး။ ‘Polite —him? He doesn't know the meaning of the word. ’ ❏ not know what hit one [ IDM ] ( infml ) အမ္းသြား သည္။ The first time I heard their music, I didn't know what had hit me. ❏ not know where/which way to look [ IDM ] ( infml ) မ်က္ႏွာမထားတတ္ေအာင္ ရွက္သည္။ When he started undressing, I didn't know where to look. ❏ there's no knowing/saying/telling [ IDM ] မေျပာ ႏိုင္ဘူး။ There's absolutely no knowing how he'll react. ❏ (well) what do you know (about that)? [ IDM ] ( infml esp US ) (အံ့အားသင့္မႈ ျပေသာ အာေမၮိတ္)။ ကိုင္း၊ ဆိုစမ္း။ Well what do you know? Look who's here⚠ ❏ you know [ IDM ] ( infml ) ၁။ သိတယ္မဟုတ္လား။ သိတယ္ေနာ္။ Guess who I've just seen? Marcia⚠ You know—Jim's wife⚠ ၂။ (စကားမျပတ္ေအာင္ စဥ္းစားခ်ိန္ရရန္ ၾကားညႇပ္ေျပာေသာ စကား)။ သိလား၊ ဟုတ္လား စသည္။ ‘I was feeling a bit bored, you know, and so…’ ❏ you know something/what? [ IDM ] ( infml ) (နိဒါန္းပ်ဳိးစကား)။ သိလား။ You know something? I've never really enjoyed Christmas. ❏ you never know [ IDM ] မေျပာႏိုင္ဘူး။ ‘It's sure to rain tomorrow’. ‘Oh, you never know, it could be a nice day’. ❍ You never know when you might need those old jamjars.

Examples

1. ‘Have they arrived yet?’ ‘I don’t know.’
2. If you don’t know the answer
3. just guess.
4. How do you know my name?
5. [know (that)] : I knew she wasn’t really happy.
6. [know what/where/how etc] : I don’t know where the money’s coming from.
7. [know if] : I need to know if she’s made a decision yet.
8. [know something about someone/something] : I don’t know anything about it.
9. [know something for sure/for certain/for a fact] : We know for a fact that the fire was started deliberately.
10. [know something from experience] : We know from experience that unemployment makes the problem worse.
11. None of us really knew what had gone wrong.
12. The ancient city is known to have existed in the region.
13. [know someone/something to be something] : The pilots were experienced and known to be very competent.
14. [know someone/something to do something] : Some drugs are known to cause damage to unborn children.
15. Some of you may know Ivan already.
16. I felt I hardly knew my father.
17. She had known Nancy for years.
18. Do you know Rome well?
19. Do you know Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony?
20. Do you know this program?
21. You know the rules.
22. Do you know any Spanish?
23. [know someone/something as something] : The village was known as Garden Mill.
24. [know someone/something by something] : They know all their tutors by their first names.
25. [know someone as/for something] : He was best known as a painter.
26. We know her mostly for her love poetry.
27. It was the only comfort and warmth she had ever known.
28. [have never known someone (to) do something] : I’ve never known her to make a joke.
29. I still know the words to some of these hymns.
30. [know (that)] : She knew it was Steven before she’d picked up the phone.
31. It was Henry: I would have known him anywhere.