Would

Definition

would / strong form wƱd; weak forms wǝd, ǝd/ modal v ( short form 'd /d/; neg would not ; short form wouldn't /'wƱdnt/) ၁။ (တစ္ဆင့္စကားကို ေျပာရရာ၌ will၏ အတိတ္ ကာလျပသဏၭာန္အျဖစ္ သံုးသည္။ ) မည္။ မယ္။ He said he would be here at 8 o'clock (ie He said, 'I will be there at 8 o'clock). ❍ She asked me if I'd give her a lift home. ❍ They told me that they probably wouldn't come. See also WILL modal v ၂။ (က) (အလားအလာ အေျခအေနကို မွန္းေျပာရာ၌ သံုးေသာ စကားလံုး)။ (ႏွင့္) ဆိုလွ်င္။ မယ္ဆိုရင္။ ရင္ေတာ့။ She'd look better with shorter hair. ❍ If you went to see him, he would be delighted. ❍ Hurry up! It would be a pity to miss the beginning of the play. ❍ She'd be a fool to accept it (ie if she accepted). (ခ) (တစ္ခုခုေပၚမီွ၍ အျခားတစ္ခုခု ျဖစ္ႏိုင္ေၾကာင္း ျပ စကားလံုး)။ …ခဲ့လွ်င္။ …မွာပါ၊ မွာပဲ။ If I had seen the advertisement in time I would have applied for the job. ❍ They would never have met if she hadn't gone to Emma's party. ၃။ (so that/ in order that ေနာက္တြင္ သံုး၍ ရည္ရြယ္မႈႏွင့္ အက်ဳိးရလဒ္ကို ေဖာ္ျပေသာစကား)။ She burned the letters so that her husband would never read them. သူ႕ေယာက်္ား မေတြ႕ႏိုင္ေအာင္ စာေတြအားလံုး မီး႐ိႈ႕လိုက္တယ္။ ၄။ (wish ေနာက္တြင္သံုး၍ ဆႏၵသေဘာထားကို ျပေသာ စကားလံုး)။ I wish you'd be quiet for a minute ❍ He wishes (that) she would leave him. ၅။ (စိတ္ဆႏၵမရိွေၾကာင္း၊ စက္ကိရိယာ စသည္ အလုပ္မလုပ္ေၾကာင္း ေဖာ္ျပေသာစကားလံုး)။ She wouldn't go to the dentist, even though she was in considerable pain. ❍ My car wouldn't start this morning. ၆။ (က) (အယဥ္အေက်း ေမတၱာရပ္ခံေသာ စကား)။ Would you mind paying me in cash, please? ❍ Would you open the door for me, please? (ခ) (တစ္ဖက္သား၏ အႀကိဳက္ကို အယဥ္အေက်း ေမးေသာ စကား။ အယဥ္အေက်း ဖိတ္ေခၚစကား)။ Would you like a sandwich? ❍ Would you have dinner with me on Friday? ၇။ (ႏွစ္သက္ေၾကာင္း၊ မႏွစ္သက္ေၾကာင္း ေဖာ္ျပရာ တြင္သံုးေသာ စကားလံုး)။ I'd love a coffee. ❍ I'd hate you to think I was criticizing you. ❍ I'd be only too glad to help. ❍ Where would you like to sit? ၈။ (စိတ္အထင္ကို ေဖာ္ျပရာတြင္သံုးေသာစကားလံုး)။ I would imagine the journey will take about an hour. ❍ I'd say he was about fifty. ၉။ (အတိတ္တြင္ျဖစ္ေလ့၊ လုပ္ေလ့ရိွသည့္ သေဘာကို ေဖာ္ျပရာ၌ သံုးေသာ စကားလံုး)။ When my parents were away, my grandmother would look after me. ❍ He'd always be the first to offer to help. ၁၀။ (အက်င့္စ႐ိုက္၊ အေျခအေန အေနအထားကို ေဝဖန္သမႈျပဳရာ၌ သံုးေသာ စကားလံုး)။ ‘She said it was your fault. ’ ‘Well, she would say that, wouldn't she? She's never liked me. ’ ❍ It would rain (ie How typical it is of the weather that it should rain) on our wedding day! မဂၤလာေဆာင္ ေန႔မွပဲ မိုးက ရြာရတယ္လို႔။ ❏ would-be adj ေနာင္ျဖစ္လာမည့္။ …ေလာင္း။ a would-be artist/ model/ author.

Examples

1. James said he would never forgive her.
2. Most analysts expected that there would be a change in policy.
3. ‘Our plan isn’t going to work.’ ‘I never thought it would.’
4. Here she met the man who would one day become her husband.
5. I’d travel first class if I could afford it.
6. What would happen if there was an earthquake?
7. [would have done something] : If I’d known you were coming
8. I’d have got your room ready.
9. You wouldn’t recognize the place now – it’s changed so much.
10. It would be fun to have a beach party.
11. It’s no use talking to Henry – he wouldn’t understand.
12. Why would anyone want to kill Jerry?
13. Where would he have hidden the keys?
14. I could lend you some – would fifty pounds be enough?
15. The Campbells would sometimes invite us over for the weekend.
16. On winter evenings we’d all sit around the fire.
17. ‘Sylvia said it was your fault.’ ‘Well
18. Sylvia would say that
19. wouldn’t she?’
20. Would someone please help me move the piano?
21. [would you mind doing something] : Would you mind waiting outside?
22. [would it be all right/okay if...] : Would it be all right if I used your phone?
23. Would you like a cup of coffee or something?
24. Would anyone care for a game of tennis?
25. Bruce would lend you the money
26. I’m sure.
27. I asked her to help me
28. but she wouldn’t.
29. During the war people would gladly do extra duties.
30. [would like/love/prefer etc to do something] : I think David would like to see you alone.
31. ‘Come and spend Christmas with us.’ ‘I’d love to
32. but I can’t.’
33. I’d go carefully if I were you.
34. It would be wise to discuss this with your bank manager.