That

Definition

that /ðæt/ det ( pl those /ðǝƱz/) ၁။ ထို။ ယင္း။ ၎။ ဟို။ အဲဒါ။ Look at that man standing there. ❍ That box is bigger than this one. ❍ How much are those apples at the back? ❍ Where did that noise come from? ❍ Who are those people over there? Compare THIS ၂။ (ေျပာၿပီး၊ သိၿပီးသားကို ၫႊန္းသည္။ ) ထို။ ယင္း။ ၎။ ဟို။ အဲဒီ။ I was still living with my parents at that time/in those days. ❍ That incident changed their lives. ❍ Have you read that incredible story about her in the papers? ❍ That friend of his was rather strange, wasn't he? ❍ That dress of hers is too short. ၃။ (နာမ္ေရွ႕တြင္) သည့္၊ ေသာ၊ တဲ့ (သူ၊ အရာ စသည္)။ Have you forgotten about that money I lent you last week? ❍ Those students who failed the exam will have to take it again. ❍ Who was that man you were talking to? pron ( pl those /ðǝƱz/) ၁။ ထို။ ယင္း။ ၎။ အဲဒါ။ That's Peter at the bus-stop. ❍ Who's that? ❍ Hello. Is that Heather? ❍ That's a nice dress. ❍ Those look riper than these. ၂။ (ေျပာၿပီး၊ သိၿပီး သားကို ၫႊန္း၍) အဲဒါ။ What can I do about that? ❍ That was a really stupid thing to say. ❍ Do you remember when we went to Norway? That was a good holiday. ❍ That's exactly what I think. ❍ Is that what he told you? ၃။ တဲ့၊ သည့္၊ ေသာ၊ (… ေတြ၊ မ်ား)။ Those I like most are usually very expensive. ❍ Those present were in favour of a change. ❍ There are those who say (ie Some people say) she should never have been appointed. ၄။ (အမ်ဳိးအစားတစ္ခုကိုၫႊန္း၍) ဟာ။ ေတြဟာ။ … တို႔သည္။ … မ်ားမွာ။ His reaction was that of a man losing his patience. ❍ My best friends are those I've known the longest. ❍ Salaries here are higher than those in my country. adv ထိုမွ်ေလာက္။ ထိုအတိုင္းအတာအထိ။ ထိုကဲ့သို႔။ ဒါေလာက္ ေတာင္။ အဲဒါေလာက္။ I can't walk that far (ie as far as that). ❍ They've spent that much (ie as much as is indicated). ❍ It's about that long (ie as long as is indicated). ❍ It isn't all that cold (ie not as cold as you are suggesting or not very cold). ❍ ( infml ) I was that frightened I didn't know what to do. conj ၁။ ဟု။ တဲ့။ လို႔။ ဆိုတာ။ She said that the book was based on a true story. ❍ I thought that 9 May would be the date of the election. ❍ It's possible that he hasn't received the letter. ❍ That she had no interest in him was obvious to us all. ၂။ ( rhet ) (လိုလားျခင္း၊ ဝမ္းနည္းျခင္းတို႔ကို ေဖာ္ျပရာ၌) မလို႔လား။ ေတာ့လား။ Oh that I could see him again! ❍ That I should see a child of mine arrested for selling drugs! rel pron ၁။ (က) (ဝါက်က႑ႀကိယာ၏ကတၱားအျဖစ္) သည့္၊ ေသာ၊ တဲ့ (သူ၊ အရာစသည္)။ The letter that came this morning was from my father. ❍ The woman that spoke to me in the shop used to live near me in Exeter. ❍ Who was it that won the last World Cup? (ခ) (ဝါက်က႑ ႀကိယာ၏ကံအျဖစ္ ခ်န္ထား၍ လည္းသံုးသည္။ ) ေသာ၊ သည့္၊ တဲ့ (သူ၊ အရာစသည္)။ The watch (that) you gave me keeps perfect time. ❍ The person (that) I have to phone lives in Bombay. (ဂ) (ကံပုဒ္အျဖစ္) သည့္။ ေသာ။ တဲ့။ The photographs (that) you're looking at were taken by my brother. ❍ The man (that) I was talking to had just arrived from Canada. ❍ WHOM ၂။ (အသာလြန္ဆံုးျပပုဒ္၊ the only, all စသည္ ေနာက္မွ လိုက္၍) သည့္။ ေသာ။ တဲ့။ Shakespeare is the greatest English writer that ever lived. ❍ The only part of the meal (that) I really liked was the dessert. ❍ All that I have is yours. ၃။ (when အစားကာလျပအျဖစ္) သည့္။ ေသာ။ တဲ့။ the year that my father died ❍ the day that war broke out ❍ It was only later/not until later that I started to feel better. ❏ and (all) that [ IDM ] ( infml ) ဒါေတြ (အားလံုး)။ Did you bring the documents and (all) that? ❏ that is (to say) [ IDM ] ၁။ တစ္နည္းအားျဖင့္ဆိုရင္။ He's a local government administrator, that is to say a Civil Servant. ၂။ အတိအက်ေျပာရလွ်င္။ She's a housewife—when she's not teaching English, that is. ❏ that's that [ IDM ] (အၿပီးအျပတ္ျဖစ္သည့္သေဘာျဖင့္ ေျပာေသာ) ဒါပဲ။ ဒါအျပတ္ပဲ။ I'm not going to let you use my car, and that's that.

Examples

1. I know there’s a problem
2. but I haven’t got time to worry about that now.
3. No
4. I’m not in love with Ken. Where did you get that idea?
5. It was a secret – that’s why they never talked about it.
6. Why don’t you ask Carmen? That’s who I’d choose.
7. The engine’s started making that noise again.
8. Why don’t you invite that nice Mr Clifford?
9. The children used to love those old Charlie Chaplin films.
10. Wasn’t that the boss’s wife you were talking to just now?
11. That’s Jerry’s car
12. over there.
13. This is my towel and that’s yours.
14. I need these books
15. but you can borrow any of those.
16. Where did that stain on the carpet come from?
17. Do you know who that woman in the blue dress is?
18. I like that jacket. It suits you.
19. What’s that you’re holding?
20. There were no telephones in those days.
21. Remember that time we all went to the lake?
22. He once played for England
23. but that was a long time ago.
24. That was fun. We must do it again some time.
25. All the details were in that letter I sent you last week.
26. Those who could not walk were left to die by the roadside.
27. [that of] : The voice was that of an elderly woman.
28. Hello
29. is that Robert Hoffman? My name is Richard Anderson.
30. Dawkins believes that his sister was murdered.
31. There had been some suggestion that I should resign.
32. We cannot ignore the fact that there is a shortage of qualified nurses.
33. That no one remembered her birthday left Marta very depressed.
34. [it is surprising/interesting/important that] : It was surprising that no one had warned them of the danger.
35. I’m sorry that I missed the first meeting.
36. I am absolutely delighted that we achieved what we set out to do.
37. We haven’t met the people that live next door.
38. Think of all the things that have happened to us since we moved here.
39. We have built a structure that should last for hundreds of years.
40. I want a car that’s reliable.
41. It was the worst winter that anyone could remember.
42. Davis is the most brilliant man that I’ve ever worked with.
43. There was no one that I could ask for help.
44. Is there anything else that you want to ask?
45. It was so cold that the sea froze in some places.
46. In the morning he had such a headache that he could not even drink his coffee.
47. I need a piece of rope about that long.
48. There was only that much left in the bottle.
49. There’s no need to rush around – it isn’t that urgent.
50. I know some people left before the end
51. but was it really that bad?