Thank-you

Definition

thank /θæŋk/ v ~ sb (for sth/doing sth) ေက်းဇူးတင္သည္။ There's no need to thank me—I was only doing my job. ❍ We thanked them for all their help. ❍ ( ironic ) He won't thank you (ie He will be annoyed with you) for leaving him to clear everything up. ❏ have oneself/sb to thank (for sth) [ IDM ] ( ironic ) ဘယ္သူမျပဳမိမိမႈ။ ဘယ္သူ႕လက္ခ်က္လဲ။ She has only herself to thank for what happened. ❍ Who do we have to thank for this fiasco? ❏ I'll thank you for sth/to do sth [ IDM ] (စိတ္မရွည္ ေၾကာင္းျပ ေတာင္းပန္စကား၊ အမိန္႔ေပးစကား)။ ေက်းဇူးတင္ပါမယ္ … လုပ္ပါ/ မလုပ္ပါနဲ႔။ I'll thank you to mind your own business. ❏ no, thank you [ IDM ] မလိုပါဘူးရွင္/ခင္ဗ်ာ၊ ေက်းဇူးတင္ပါတယ္။ ‘Would you like some more coffee?’ ‘No, thank you. ’ ❏ no thanks to sb/sth [ IDM ] ဘယ္သူ႕ေက်းဇူး၊ အကူအညီမွ်မပါဘဲ။ It's no thanks to you (that) we arrived on time—your short cuts weren't short cuts at all! ❏ thankful /-fl/ adj (က) ~ (to do sth); ~ (that …) ကံေကာင္းတယ္မွတ္ပါ။ You should be thankful to have escaped/that you have escaped with only minor injuries. (ခ) ~ (for sth) ေက်းဇူးတင္ေသာ။ ေက်းဇူးေတာ္ကိုခ်ီးမြမ္း ေသာ။ a thankful prayer ❍ I am thankful for your enthusiasm and commitment. ❏ thankfully /-fǝli/ adv ၁။ ေက်းဇူးတင္စြာျဖင့္။ I accepted the invitation thankfully. ၂။ ကံေကာင္းေထာက္မလို႔။ Thankfully, it has stopped raining at last. ❍ There was, thankfully, no real damage done. ❍ HOPEFUL ❏ thank God/goodness/heaven(s) [ IDM ] ဘုရားမလို႔။ ဘုရားသခင္ ဂုဏ္ေက်းဇူးေၾကာင့္။ Thank God you're safe! ❏ thankless adj မည္သူကမွ် အသိအမွတ္မျပဳေသာ။ perform a thankless task. ❏ thank one's lucky stars [ IDM ] ကံႀကီးေပလို႔။ ကံေကာင္း လို႔။ You can thank your lucky stars (that) nothing worse happened. ❏ thanks n [pl] ~ (to sb) (for sth) ေက်းဇူးတင္ျခင္း။ ေက်းဇူးေတာ္ကို ခ်ီးမြမ္းျခင္း။ give thanks to God ❍ My heartfelt/warmestthanks to you all. ❍ Many thanks for all your hospitality. See also VOTE OF THANKS interj ( infml ) ~ (for sth/doing sth) ေက်းဇူးပဲ။ ‘Would you like some more cake?’ ‘No thanks’. ❍ Thanks a lot for the loan/for lending me the money. ❍ ‘Here's your change’. ‘Thanks very much’. ❏ thanks a million [ IDM ] ေက်းဇူးအမ်ားႀကီးတင္ပါတယ္။ ေက်းဇူးကမ႓ာ။ ❏ thanks to sb/sth [ IDM ] ( sometimes ironic ) တစ္ခုခု၊ တစ္ေယာက္ေယာက္ေၾကာင့္။ … ေက်းဇူးေၾကာင့္။ The fete was a great success, thanks to the fine weather and a lot of hard work. ❍ We're £200 worse off, (and it's all) thanks to you! ❏ thank you (for sth/doing sth) [ IDM ] (…အတြက္) ေက်းဇူးတင္ပါတယ္။ Thank you (very much) for lending me your bike. ❏ thank-you n ေက်းဇူးစကား။ Have you said your thank-yous to Mrs Brown for the party? ❍ She walked away without so much as a thank-you. ❍ thank-you letters.

Examples

1. She didn’t even thank me.
2. [thank someone for something] : I just wanted to thank you for the flowers – they’re beautiful.
3. I thanked him for his help and left.
4. [thank someone for doing something] : I’d like to thank everybody for coming along today.