Younger

Definition

young /jʌŋ/ adj ( -nger /-ŋgǝ(r)/; -ngest /-ŋgÇst/ ) ၁။ ငယ္ရြယ္ ေသာ။ ပ်ဳိႏုေသာ။ a young woman/ animal/ tree/ nation ❍ Are you younger or older than me? Compare OLD ၂ ၂။ ႏုပ်ဳိေသာ။ a young forty-year-old ❍ He's sixty but he's very young in his outlook. ၃။ ႏုေသာ။ My daughter's thirteen but she's young for her age. သမီးေလးက ၁၃ႏွစ္ရိွေပမည့္ လည္း ခုထိကေလးလိုပဲ။ ၄။ ငယ္ရြယ္ေသာ။ ႏုေသာ။ young love/ ambition/fashion ❍ Those clothes she's wearing are much too young for her. ၅။ လူငယ္။ the Young Conservatives ❍ Young Farmers' clubs. ၆။ (က) the younger (fml) အငယ္။ the younger Pitt ❍ Pitt the younger. Compare ELDER 1 ၂ (ခ) ( infml becoming dated ) … ၏သား။ Young Jones is just like his father. ၇။ ေမာင္ရင္။ သူငယ္မ။ Now listen to me, young man/lady/woman! ၈။ ( rhet ) (ညဥ့္) မနက္ေသးေသာ။ The night is still young. n [pl] ၁။ အေကာင္ေပါက္မ်ား။ (တိရစၧာန္) ေပါက္စမ်ား။ The female bird feeds its young until they leave the nest. ၂။ လူငယ္လူရြယ္။ a film that appeals specially to the young. ❏ not as/so young as one used to be/as one (once) was [ IDM ] ငယ္တုန္းကလို မဟုတ္ေတာ့ ဘူး။ I can't play squash twice a week—I'm not as young as I was, you know! ❏ not getting any younger [ IDM ] အသက္ႀကီးလာၿပီ။ အရြယ္ေထာက္လာၿပီ။ The long walk to the shops tires me out—I'm not getting any younger, you know. ❏ young and old (a like)[ IDM ] ႀကီးငယ္မဟူ။ အားလံုး။ This is a book for young and old (alike). ❏ young at heart [ IDM ] စိတ္ပ်ဳိေသာ။ ❏ youngish /'jʌŋÇʃ/ adj ေတာ္ေတာ္ငယ္ေသာ။ a youngish President. ❏ youngster /-stǝ(r)/ n ကေလး။ လူငယ္။ ခ်ာတိတ္။ She's still only a youngster.

Examples

1. She’s married with two young children.
2. They told him he was too young to understand.
3. She has very young hands.
4. [be/look young for your age] : He’s a nice boy
5. but very young for his age.
6. Denise looks really young for her age
7. doesn’t she?
8. I’m afraid I think that dress is a little young for you.
9. It’s still quite a young organization.