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Are you into + n ? ..စိတ်ဝင်စားလား၊ …နှစ်သက်လား

Are you into soccer?
Are you into trying new things?
Are you into wine tasting?

Are you trying to + infinitive? …ဖို့ ကြိုးစားနေလား

Are you trying to ignore me?
Are you trying to manage your money?
Are you trying to memorize that song?

Are you used to? အသားကျလား၊ ..လေ့ရှိလား၊ …တတ်လား

Are you used to using chopsticks?
Are you used to life here?
Are you used to staying up late?

As far as သမျှ၊ သလောက်

As far as I can remember, he didn’t come home until midnight.

be busy/worth + v-ing …နေလို့ …အလုပ်ရှုပ်/ထိုက်တယ်

I was busy thinking
She is busy working
These objections aren't worth bothering about.
It isn't worth taking the matter any further

be dying to + infinitive အရမ်း …ချင်တယ်

I am dying to relax on the bench
I’m dying to look at all the work you’ve done.
He’s dying to expand his business

be + good at ..တော်တယ်၊ ကျွမ်းတယ်

He is good at singing
We are good at playing guitar.
I’m good at swimming.

be having a hard time + v-ing …ရတာ အကျပ်ရိုက်စေတယ်၊ အခက်ကြုံနေတယ် (တိုင်ပတ်တယ် 😀 )

I'm having a hard time writing.
He’s having a hard time understanding you.
We’re having a hard time answering your question.
I'm having an extremely hard time with my wife.
I'm having a very hard time finding a job.

be + in/at/on မှာ၊ ၌၊ ပေါ်

I am in the shower
She is at the grocery
He is on the bus
I am on the phone

be/get accustomed to + v-ing ..နေကျ။ နေသားကျ(လာ) (past/present/future), (more formal)

I was accustomed to going to the beach during the summer. (becasue ‘I used to go to the beach during the summer’)
I thought I'd never get used to being in an office all day.
Getting to know each other and to get accustomed to talking to each other

be/get used to + sth အသားကျသွားပြီ = familiar with/accustomed to

I am used to the weather in this country.
She's used to the city now and doesn't get lost any more.
She had to drive on the left, not on the right. She wasn’t used to it.
After a while, you'll get used to the separation and accept it
She quickly became accustomed to his messy ways
It did not get lighter, but I became accustomed to the dark

be/get used to + v-ing … ..နေကျ။ နေသားကျ(လာ) (past/present/future), no longer true at present (more informal)

I am used to driving on the left because I have lived in Britain a long time.
He is used to studying so much.
I'm used to being around new people.
I'm not used to talking in front of groups of people. (negative)

Can I + infinitive? …လို့ ရမလား

Can I answer your question?
Can I attend the event?
Can I move to another spot?

cannot help (can’t help) + v-ing …တာ.မထိန်းနိုင်/မတတ်နိုင်လို့ လုပ်ဖြစ်မိ/ဖြစ်ပျက်နေတာ

I can't help thinking about it. (တွေးနေတာ မရပ်တန့်နိုင်၊ မတွေးချင်လည်း တွေးနေရ)
She can't help shopping so much. (အများကြီး ဝယ်ဖြစ်တာ မတတ်နိုင်ဘူးလေ)
I can not help biting my nails when I am nervous.
He can not help smoking when he has been drinking.

did not mean to + infinitive …ဖို့ မရည်ရွယ်ခဲ့ပါဘူး (regret/sorry). This could have been a physical, mental or verbal action.

I didn't mean to hurt your feelings.
He didn't mean to call you so late.
I didn't mean to lie about what happened.

do not/ does not have time to + infinitive …ဖို့ အချိန်မရှိဘူး

I don't have time to explain.
He does not have time to eat.

Do you like ..တာ ကြိုက်လား? …

Do you like traveling on a plane?
Do you like watching baseball on TV?
Do you like skiing or snowboarding?

Do you mind if I + infinitive ကျွန်ုပ် ..ရင် နင် စိတ်ရှိလား

Do you mind if I excuse myself?
Do you mind if we left early?
Do you mind if I take a nap?
Would you mind if we went out to eat?
Would you mind if I opened the window?

Do you want me to + infinitive? …ကျွန်ုပ်ကို …စေချင်လား

Do you want me to pick up the kids? ကျွန်ုပ်ကို ကလေး ကြိုစေချင်လား
Do you want me to fix your flat tire?
Do you want me to help you read that book?
Do you want me to remind you?
Do you want me to remove my shoes?
I want you to come over. မင်းကို အလည်လာစေချင်တယ်
I want you to make a decision.
I want you to water the flowers

Don't + infinitive မ…… နဲ့

Don't do မလုပ်နဲ့
Don't go မသွားနဲ့

feel + adj …ခံစားရတယ်

I feel stressed out at work. (Trick: I am stressed out at work. = correct)
I felt quickly for my phone to make sure it was still in my pocket.
I feel unhappy မပျော်ဘူး = I am in a bad mood
She’s feeling unwell today. သူမ နေလို့မကောင်းဘူး
She feels great. ပီတိဖြစ်တယ်။

feel like + v-ing … ချင်တယ်။ …ချင်တဲ့စိတ်ပေါက်တယ်။ …(သလိုလို)

I feel like going to the beach. (= I would like to go to the beach.) ငါ ကမ်းခြေသွားချင်တယ်
I feel like singing ( I want to sing)

get + adj …လာတယ် (become' or to describe a change of state or situation)

I am getting better ငါ ပိုကောင်းလာတယ်။
He got married သူ အိမ်ထောင်ကျပြီ
She is getting good at reading သူမ စာဖတ်တာ ကောင်းလာတယ်။
He’s getting crazy (have fun, try new things, let loose) ပျော်၊ အထူးအဆန်းတွေ လုပ်တာ

get used to + sth အသားကျလာတယ်။ အနေသားကျလာတယ်။

I expect we’ll get used to the noise, but at the moment it’s very disturbing.

have/has + to infinitive …ရမည် (သေချာမှု၊ လိုအပ်မှု၊ တာဝန်ရှိမှုကို ဖော်ပြ) certainty, necessity, obligation

I have to switch schools.
I have to use the telephone.
I have to go to the bathroom.
I don't have to switch schools. (negative)
I don't have to use the telephone.(negative)
I don't have to go to the bathroom.(negative)

have/has decided to + infinitive …ဖို့ ဆုံးဖြတ်ခဲ့တယ်။

I've decided to change my bad habits
I've decided to extend my membership at the gym.
She has decided to manage a store.

Help yourself to ကိုယ်ဟာကို ….လုပ်/ယူ/စား စသည့် ပါ

Make yourself at home. Help yourself to some fish
Help yourself to the refrigerator.
Help yourself to some steak. I made it especially for you

I’m not sure if (subject +v) ..မှာလား ကျွန်ုပ် မသေချာဘူး (မသိဘူး)

I am not sure if they will offer me the job.
I'm not sure if she'll return my call.
I'm not sure if my wife will understand.
I'm not sure if we will go out tonight.

I cannot wait to + infinitive …ဖို့ မစောင့်နိုင်ဘူး၊ အရမ်း…ချင်နေပြီ၊ အရမ်းလောနေပြီ

I can’t wait to see my family.
I can’t wait to hear from you

I don’t know what to + infinitive….ရမှန်း မသိဘူး

I don't know what to eat for dinner.
I don't know what to buy you for your birthday.
I don't know what to say.

I hope you + infinitive ….ဖို့/မယ်လို့ မျှော်လင့်တယ်

I hope you like it
i hope you come
i hope you understand
i hope you know
i hope you find

How + adjective ဘယ်လောက် ----- လဲ၊ အရမ်း -----တယ်

How nice! အရမ်း လှတယ်၊ ဘယ်လောက်လှလဲ
How well! အရမ်း ကောင်းတယ်၊ ဘယ်လောက်ကောင်းလဲ
How beautiful! ဘယ်လောက်လှလဲ
How interesting! ဘယ်လောက်စိတ်ဝင်စားဖို့ ကောင်းလဲ
How funny! ဘယ်လောက်ရယ်စရာကောင်းလဲ
How amazing! ဘယ်လောက်အံ့ဩစရာကောင်းလဲ
How great! ဘယ်လောက်ကြီးမားလဲ
How wonderful! ဘယ်လောက် အံ့ဩဖို့ကောင်းလဲ
How many! ဘယ်လောက်များလဲ
How mad! ဘယ်လောက်ရူးလဲ

How about + v-ing? …ရင် ဘယ်လိုလဲ။ ကောင်းမလား၊ ကြိုက်လား

How about singing? သီချင်းဆိုရင် ဘယ်လိုလဲ ကြိုက်လား
How about hanging out tonight?
How about folding the laundry for me?

How long does it take to… ? ဘယ်လောက်ကြာလဲ

How long does it take to build a stadium?
How long does it take to get to the station by subway?

How much does it cost to + infinitive? ..ဖို့ ဈေးဘယ်လောက်ပေးရမလဲ၊ ဘယ်လောက်ကုန်ကျလဲ

How much does it cost to fly to Europe?
How much does it cost to own a house?
How much does it cost to play a round of golf?
How much does it cost to join a gym?

How often do you + infinitive? ဘယ်လောက်များများ …လဲ (ဘယ်နှကြိမ်၊ ဘယ်နှခါ)

How often do you exercise?
How often do you change your password?

How was + n ? ..ဘယ်လို ဖြစ်လဲ၊ ဖြစ်ခဲ့လဲ

How was your meeting?
How was your doctor's appointment?
How was the birthday party?
How was lunch?

I’m afraid (that) အားနာပါရဲ့၊ စိတ်မကောင်းလိုက်တာ

I’m afraid we can’t come.
I was afraid that you’d miss the flight.

I’m calling to + infinitive …ဖို့ (ဖုန်း) ခေါ်နေတာပါ

I'm calling to tell you about my day.
I'm calling to accept your invitation.
I'm calling to answer your question

I’m dying to + infinitive အရမ်း…ချင်တယ်။

I'm dying to relax on the beach.
I'm dying to pick some fresh fruit.
I'm dying to order some desserts.
I'm dying to find out if I got the job

I'm gonna + infinitvie ကျွန်ုပ် ---မယ် (informal)

I'm gonna do ငါ လုပ်မယ်
I'm gonna give you a present ငါ နင့်ကို လက်ဆောင်တစ်ခု ပေးမယ်

I am looking forward to + v-ing …ဖို့ မျှော်လင့်နေတယ်

I'm looking forward to talking with you.
I'm looking forward to meeting you.
I'm looking forward to going on vacation.

I’m really not happy with + n တကယ် မပျော်ဘူး

I’m not really happy with their performance.
I’m not really happy with your behavior.
I’m not really happy with your present situation.
I’m not really happy with their service.

I’m sorry to + infinitive …တာ တောင်းပန်ပါတယ်၊ စိတ်မကောင်းဘူး

I'm sorry to be so late.
I'm sorry to hear about your sick mother.
I'm sorry to waste your time.
I'm sorry to make you feel so sad

I’m thinking of v-ing ..ရမှာကို စဉ်းစားနေတာ

I'm thinking of checking out the new movie.
I'm thinking of filming my vacation.
I'm thinking of following a healthy diet.

I’m working on + n ..မှာ အလုပ်လုပ်နေတယ်

I'm working on a big project.
I'm working on training my dog.
I'm working on making new friends.

I bet ဧကန်ပြောရဲတယ်

I bet we’re lost.
I bet he’s home now.
Bet you wish you’d arrived earlier.
I bet you she won’t come.
I bet he will win the prize.

I’m not sure if (subject + v) ..မှာလား ငါ မကျိန်းသေဘူး (မသိဘူး)

I am not sure if they will offer me the job.
I'm not sure if she'll return my call.
He’s not sure if his wife will understand.

I am sorry to + infinitive …ရလို့/မှာမို့လို့ စိတ်မကောင်းဘူး၊ အားနာတယ်

I’m sorry to be so late. အရမ်းနောက်ကျမှာမို့လို့ စိတ်မကောင်းဘူး၊ အားနာတယ်။
I’m sorry to hear about your sick mother.

I am thinking of v-ing …ရမှာကို တွေး/စဉ်းစားနေတာ

I’m thinking of introuducing myself to him
I’m thinking of launching a new website.

I am willing to + infinitive (လိုအပ်က)…ဖို့ ဆန္ဒရှိတယ်။ if it is required, or if we have no problem doing it. It does not mean that we want to do something. It shows that we will do it if we need to.

I am willing to work weekends or holidays
I am willing to help you.
She is willing to donate money to our charity
They are willing to lower the price if you order more units.
I am willing to forgive him if he apologizes first.

I can hardly believe that ….ကြောင်းကို သိပ်မယုံဘူး (ယုံခဲတယ်)

I can hardly believe that he is deaf; he can understand us so well.
I can hardly believe that Paul was put in prison for bribery.
I can hardly believe what I have seen.

I can’t wait to + infinitive မစောင့်နိုင်တော့လောက်အောင် …အရမ်း…လောနေပြီ

I can’t wait to see my family
I can’t wait to hear from you
I can’t wait to buy a computer

I dare say …ပြောရဲတယ်

I dare say you will succeed in the election.
I dare say he won’t come.
I dare say that’s an adventurous thing to do.
I didn't dare to ask.
He won't dare to break his promise.

I don’t know what to + infinitive…ဘာ..ရမယ်ဆိုတာ မသိဘူး

I don't know what to eat for dinner.
He doesn't know what to buy you for your birthday.
We don't know what to say.

I gotta + infinitive ငါ ---ရမယ် (informal)

I gotta go now ငါ အခု သွားရမည်
I gotta see you late ငါ နင့်ကို နောက်မှ တွေ့ရမည်

I have heard that + ( subject + v) ..တယ်လို့ ကြားသိရတယ်

I've heard that you got a new job.
I've heard that he wants to leave his job.
I've heard that she got a new car.

I have no idea + (relative sentence) …မသိဘူး

I had no idea that she was a thief.
I have no idea what time it is
I had no idea she had a hearing problem.

I have sth to + infinitive …ဖို့ရှိတယ်

I have something to encourage you.
I have something to explain to you.
I have something important to tell you.

I promise that + sentence... မယ်လို့ ကတိပေးတယ်

I promise that I will succeed.
She promises that she can do it well
promise that he will come.
She promises that the movie is funny.
He promised that he would come.
She promised that she would help us tomorrow.
I promised I would teach him English.

I promise to + infinitive …မယ်လို့ ကတိပေးတယ်။

I promise to come. (I am promising and I am the one who is coming.)
He promises to work hard.

I should have + pp …ခဲ့သင့်တယ်

I should have gone with you. ငါ နင်နှင့်အတူ သွားခဲ့သင့်တယ်။
I should have studied more for my test.
He should have listened to your advice. သူ သင့်အကြံကို နားထောင်(ခဲ့)သင့်တယ်

I think sb should + infinitive …သင့်တယ်လို့ ထင်တယ်

I think I should pratice my reading
I think he should handle as soon as possible
I do not think I should complain so much.(negative)
I do not think I should attend that event. (negative)

I used to + infinitive ---လေ့ရှိတယ်(အလေ့အထ)

I used to take exercise every morning ငါ မနက်တိုင်း လေ့ကျင့်ခန်း လုပ်လေ့ရှိတယ်
I used to eat my breakfast at noon ငါ နေ့လယ်မှာ မနက်စာ စားလေ့ရှိတယ်

I wanna + infinitivie ကျွန်ုပ် ---ချင်တယ် (informal)

I wanna say ငါ ပြောချင်တယ်
I wanna go with you ငါ နင်နဲ့အတူ သွားချင်တယ်

I want/need you to + infinitive မင်းကို…ဖို့ ..စေချင်တယ်။

I want you to clean the dishes. (ပန်းကန်ဆေးစေချင်တယ်)
I want you to come home right after school
I need him to greet our guests.
I need her to introduce me to her family.

I’ll help you + infinitive ..လို့ရအောင် ကျွန်ုပ် ကူညီမယ်

I'll help you cook dinner tonight.
I'll help you raise money for your charity.
I'll help you register for your class online.

I wish I could + infinitive … …ရင် ‌ကောင်းမှာပဲ (စိတ်ကူး)

I wish I could sing better.
I wish I could settle the argument.
I wish I could sail around the world.

I wonder if ..ပါက အံ့ဩ(မယ်)၊ အရမ်းပျော်မယ်

I wonder if it would be convenient to visit you next Monday
I wonder if Mr. Wang could arrange a meeting with me
I was wondering if the manager would agree with my design

I’d be (would be) grateful for/if ….အတွက်၊ ..ခဲ့လျှင် ကျေးဇူးတင်မိမှာ (past)

I’d be grateful for your help.
I’d be grateful if you’d give me a hand

I’d rather(had/would rather) + infinitive …ပို၍ ...ချင်တယ်။ (ထက်…အခြားတစ်ခုခုကို ပိုလုပ်ချင်တာမျိုး)

I’d rather talk about this later. (= I prefer to talk about this later)
I’d rather ski than snowboard.
He had rather go home than stay out too late.
We’re not hungry. We’d rather not eat yet.(negative)
“Do you want to go out this evening?” “I’d rather not” (I’d rather not go out) (negative)

I would like to + infinitive ငါ ---ချင်တယ် (would like to က want to ထက် ယဉ်ကျေးရာရောက်) (formal)

I would like to explain ငါ ရှင်းပြချင်တယ်

If I were you, I would + infinitive ငါသာ မင်း(နေရာ)ဖြစ်ခဲ့လျှင်…မှာ (စိတ်ကူး)

If I were you, I would enjoy my vacation.
If I were you, I would explain what happened.
If I were a bird, I would fly away. ငှက်တစ်ကောင်ဖြစ်ရင် အဝေးပျံသန်းမှာ

Is it ok if + s + v ? ပါက/ရင် ရလား၊ အဆင်ပြေလား

Is it okay if I leave early today?
Is it okay if I bring a friend to your party?
Is it okay if she comes to the party too?
Is it okay if I am 10 minutes late?
Is it okay if I am not ready?

It is clear (that) s + v …ရှင်းပါတယ်

It is clear that the company will go bankrupt
It is clear that he will get the promotion
It is clear we are going to have to work late tonight

It is gonna be + adj …မှာ (informal)

It's going to be delicious.စားလို့ ကောင်းမှာပဲ
It's gonna be easy.
It's gonna be depressing.
"It's going to be exciting.
It's going to be disgusting.

It is good to + infinitive …ဖို့ ကောင်းတယ်။

It is good to listen to other people’s opinion

It is good not to + infinitive …မ..တာ ကောင်းတယ်။

It is good not to eat a lot of candy. (အများကြီး မစားတာ ကောင်းတယ်)
It is good not to smoke.

It is not good to + infinitive …တာ ..မကောင်းဘူး = bad to + infinitive

It is not good to smoke. ဆေးလိပ်သောက်တာ မကောင်းဘူး
It's not good to watch a lot of TV.

It is good + for + n + to infinitive …အတွက် …တာ ကောင်းတယ်။

It is good for children to play a lot. ကလေးတွေအတွက် များများ ဆော့တာ ကောင်းတယ်။
It is good for our health to exercise often

It’s hard for me to + infinitive …ဖို့/ရန် ကျွန်ုပ်အတွက် ခက်ခဲပါတယ်

It's hard for me to accept what you are telling me.
It's hard for me to argue your point.
It's hard for me to balance my check book.
It's hard for me to concentrate on the task

It’s my turn to + infinitive ..ရန်/ဖို့ ကျွန်ုပ်အလှည့်ပါ

It's my turn to walk you home.
It's my turn to do laundry.
It's my turn to work late.
It's my turn to take out the trash.

It occured to me that (subject +v) …မှန်း…သိလာရတယ်။

It occurred to me that I forgot your birthday.
It occurred to me that we both belong to the same gym.

It + will be good (for noun) + to infinitive …အတွက် …တာ…ကောင်းလိမ့်မယ် = be going to be + to inf

It will be good for me to take a vacation ငါ့အတွက် အပျော်ခရီးသွားတာ ကောင်းလိမ့်မယ်။
It will be good to see my family.
It will be good for my son to spend some time with his grandparents.
It is going to be good to see my sister.
It might be good for me to take a little break from work.

It is + adjective + to infinitive …တာ ….တယ်။

It is great to help others. သူများကို ကူညီတာ ကောင်းတယ်။
It is wonderful for elderly people to have a job to do.
It is fun to speak English. အင်္ဂလိပ်လို ပြောတာ ပျော်တယ်။

It is bad + to infinitive …တာ …ဆိုးတယ်။

It is bad to smoke ( =smoking is bad)
It is bad to spend more money than you have.

It is bad not + to infinitive …မ…တာ ဆိုးတယ်။

It is bad not to try your best. သင် အကောင်းဆုံး မကြိုးစားတာ ဆိုးတယ်။
It is bad not to be honest

It is hard for sb to + infinitive ...အတွက်..ဖို့ ခက်တယ်။ အခက်အခဲရှိတယ်။

It's hard for me to accept what you are telling me.
It's hard for him to argue his point.
It's hard for me to balance my checkbook.

It is no use/good + v-ing ..လို့…ထူးမှာမဟုတ်၊ အကျိုးရှိမှာမဟုတ်။ to say that an action will not get an expected outcome

It’s no good/ use looking for it here. You lost it 2 weeks ago.
It’s no good/ use asking her for help. She will never care.
It’s no good/ use talking to him. He won’t listen.

It is not bad + to infinitive …တာ..မဆိုးဘူး

It is not bad to go home early sometimes. တစ်ခါတစ်လေ အိမ် စောစောပြန်တာ မဆိုးဘူး
It is not bad to eat dessert once in a while.

It is (not) bad + for + n + to infinitive …အတွက်…တာ…ဆိုး/မဆိုး ဘူး

It is bad for children to drink coffee.
It is bad for young people to get too many things from their parents.
It's not bad for children to play video games sometimes.

It is one’s turn to + infinitive … ဖို့ ….၏အလှည့်

It’s my turn to walk you home
It’s your turn to do laundry
It’s our turn to pay for dinner

It's time to + infinitive ---ဖို့ အချိန်တန်စေ့ပြီ

It's time to go home အိမ်ပြန်ဖို့ အချိန်စေ့ပြီ

It’s too bad that (subject +v) …တာ/မှာ ..ဆိုးလွန်းပါတယ်

It's too bad that she lost her job. အလုပ်ဆုံးရှုံးရတာကို တော်တော်ဆိုးတယ်
It's too bad that you have to go. မင်းသွားရတာကို တော်တော်ဆိုးတယ်
It's too bad that I found out about it. တွေ့လိုက်ရတာကိုက တော်တော်ဆိုးတယ်

It is very kind of you to + infinitive …လို့ ကျေးဇူးတင်တယ်။

It's very kind of you to offer me the job. အလုပ်ပေးလို့ ကျေးဇူးတင်တယ်
It's very kind of you to listen to me. နားထောင်ပေးလို့ ကျေးဇူးတင်တယ်
It's very kind of you to join me. ငါ့ကို လာတွေ့ဆုံလို့ ကျေးဇူးတင်တယ်

It takes + time + to + infinitive …ဖို့ …(အချိန်)ကြာတယ်

It takes one hour to get there. အဲဒီနေရာ ရောက်ဖို့ တစ်နာရီကြာတယ် (တစ်နာရီကြာသွားရတယ်)။
It takes forty-five minutes for me to get ready.

let me +infinitive …ပါရစေ

Let me make my own decisions.
Let me offer to help you.
Let me open the door for you.
Let him go.

Let’s not + infinitive …မ..ဘဲ..နေရအောင်

Let's not discuss this now. မဆွေးနွေးဘဲ နေရအောင်
Let's not stay here too long.

Let’s say that + (subject + v) …ဆိုကြပါစို့။ ဆိုရအောင်။

Let's say that you love to fish. သင် ငါးမျှားတာ ကြိုက်တယ်ဆိုပါစို့
Let's say we found it. တွေ့ပြီးလို့ ဆိုရအောင်

look + adj …ပုံပေါက်သည်။ …တူသည်။

She looks beautiful. လှပတယ်
It looks nice. လှတယ်
He looks very happy. သူ သိပ်ပျော်ပုံရတယ်။

look like + n …တူတယ်

You look like your father . အဖေနဲ့တူတယ်
It looks like a bird ငှက်နဲ့တူတယ်

No matter what + s + v …ပါစေ ကိစ္စမရှိဘူး

No matter what he says, don’t believe him.
No matter how you do it, it will be wrong.
No matter where he goes, he carries his suitcase.
No matter how you spend your holiday, tell me about it.

No wonder …အထူးအဆန်းမဟုတ်ဘူး၊ မထူးဆန်းဘူး၊ အံ့ဩစရာမဟုတ်

You eat so little. No wonder you are so slim
Are you a librarian? No wonder you are so well read

plan to + infinitive …ရန် ရှိတယ်၊ ဖို့...အစီအစဉ်ရှိတယ် things you would like to do in the near future

I plan to find a new apartment.
I plan to relax on vacation.
I plan to surprise my parents.

Please + infinitvie ကျေးဇူးပြုပြီး ---- ပါ

Please come ကျေးဇူးပြုပြီး လာပါ
Please give ကျေးဇူးပြုပြီး ပေးပါ

Please make sure that + (subject + v)...သေချာအောင် …ပါ။

Please make sure that the printer is connected သေချာချိတ်ပါ။
Please make sure that she wakes up on time.
Please make sure that she gets to school.

promise to + infinitive …ဖို့ ကတိပေးတယ်။ အာမခံတယ်။

I promise I am telling the truth.
I promise to practice my math.
I promise I will tell you.
He promises he will come to your party

promise not to + infinitve …မ…ဖို့ ကတိပေးတယ်။ အာမခံတယ်။

I promise not to be so late.
I promise not to hurt your feelings.

S + cannot go + v-ing ဆက်ပြီး …...မ…...နိုင်တော့ဘူး

He can't go on writing a letter.
I can’t go on drinking alcohol.

S + think (that) + sentence…ထင်/ယူဆ (‘that’ omitted usu in spoken)

I think that it is good.
I think it is good.
I think that it was good.
I think that it will be good.
I think that it has been good.
She thinks we are going to win the game.
Ben thinks he is going to be fired.
They think it is a waste of time.

S + do not/does not + think (that) + sentence …မထင်/မယူဆ ( ‘that’ omitted usu in spoken)

I do not think that carrots are delicious.
I don't think she likes me.
She doesn't think that the movie was good.

S + be + thinking about + v-ing …ဖို့ကို …စဉ်းစားနေတယ်။

I am thinking about quitting my job. အလုပ်ထွက်ဖို့ကို စဉ်းစားနေ
She is thinking about moving to Miami.
They are thinking about starting their own company.

S + be + thinking about + n ..အကြောင်းကို စဉ်းစားနေတယ်။

I am thinking about my girlfriend.
She is thinking about the future.
We are thinking about our childhood.

S + hope + Obj + infinitive ….မယ်လို့ မျှော်လင့်တယ်

I hope you like it
I hope you come
I hope you understand

S + thought/did not (that) + past tense …ထင်ခဲ့/မထင်ခဲ့

She thought that the party was fun.
We thought that the movie was too violent.
He thought you were nice.
We thought she would come

seem like + n ထင်ရတယ်

It seemed like a disaster at the time.
You seemed like such a nice person when I met you. This seems like a nice day.

used to + infinitive …လေ့ရှိတယ် (past) no longer do it.

I used to develop websites.
I used to jog every day.
I used to paint.
I used to smoke.

seem + adj …တယ်လို့ ထင်ရတယ်။ ပုံပေါက်တယ်။ ပုံရတယ်။

It seems great ကောင်းပုံရတယ်။
You seem bored သင် ငြီးငွေ့ပုံပေါက်တယ်။
He seemed busy yesterday မနေ့က သူ အလုပ်များပုံ ရတယ်။
You seem embarrassed about what happened.
You seem decisive about your choice.

She doesn’t mind + v-ing ရတယ်၊ ကိစ္စမရှိပါဘူး It's ok with her. It doesn’t matter to her.

I don’t mind watching the kids while you go out.
I do not mind waiting for you. Take your time.
I don’t mind staying in on Friday night.
I don’t mind dogs.
I don’t mind dirty places.
He doesn’t mind working late.
Mary doesn’t mind being poor
I don’t mind her. (=I don’t like her, but I don’t hate her either.)
I don’t care about her. (=I have no interest in her and what she does.)

should + infinitive …သင့်

I should respect my parents ကျွန်ုပ် မိဘတွေကို ရိုသေသင့်တယ်
You should obey the law သင် ဥပဒေကို လိုက်နာသင့်တယ်

Stay + adj ..အောင် နေပါ

Stay stronger
Stay tuned
Stay calm
Stay happy

Subject + appreciate + n ကျေးဇူးတင်တယ်

I appreciate your help. = Thank you for your help.
I appreciate the donation.
He appreciates your advice.
We appreciate his effort.

Subject + appreciate + possessive adjective + noun/v-ing… လို့ ကျေးဇူးတင်တယ်

I appreciate your coming.
We appreciate their being honest.
We appreciate your honesty.
She appreciates your helping out with the event.

Subject + appreciate (that) + sentence … လို့ ကျေးဇူးတင်တယ်

I appreciate that you came to my party.
I appreciate that you didn’t say anything to him about what happened.
He appreciates you worked so hard during the project

Subject + would appreciate it if +sentence …ရင် ကျေးဇူးတင်မှာ

I would appreciate it if you came to my party.
I would appreciate it if you let me borrow your car.
My boss would appreciate it if you could help us.

Subject + don’t/doesn’t mind if + sentence … ပါက ရပါတယ် (ကိစ္စမရှိပါဘူး)

I don’t mind if she comes to the party.
I do not mind if you use my office for your meeting.
I don’t mind if you call me names
Mark doesn’t mind if you sleep in his bedroom tonight.
Tina doesn’t mind if you use this information in your report

Thank you for + v-ing …လို့ ကျေးဇူးတင်တယ်

Thank you for inviting me.
Thank you for helping me move.
Thank you for informing me about the job opening.

That’s why + (subject + v)....ဒါကြောင့်…တာ

That's why people admire you. ဒါကြောင့် လူတွေ မင်းကို လေးစားတာ
That's why she appears so happy. ဒါကြောင့် သူမ အရမ်းပျော်ပုံပေါက်တာ
That's why babies crawl before they can walk

The point is that + (subject + v)...အဓိကအချက်က

The point is that if you study, you will do well in school.
The point is that she does not understand.
The point is that we need this done today.

There is no doubt (that) + sentence …ကြောင်း သံသယဖြစ်စရာ မရှိပါ၊ သေချာပါတယ်

There is no doubt that I am the best basketball player here.
There is no doubt that Lebron James is the best basketball player in the world.
There is no doubt she will be late today. She is late every day.

There is no need to + infinitive …ဖို့/ရန် မလို။ ….ရန် မရှိ။

There's no need to worry. စိုးရမ်ဖို့ မလို/စိုးရိမ်ရန် မရှိ
There's no need to be upset.
There's no need to act so strange.

There is no point + v-ing အလာကား၊ အချည်းနှီး…နေတယ် doing something is useless, worthless. The action has no value, so we should not do it.

There is no point crying.
There is no point lying.
There is no point leaving now.
There is no point applying to that company.
There is no point trying to talk to her.
There is no point crying because nobody cares about your feelings.
There is no point lying to my wife because she will know
There is no point in trying to lie to him.
There is no point in crying over spilled milk

There is no way + (subject +v)...နိုင်မှာ မဟုတ်။ …မဖြစ်နိုင်

There's no way you finish on time. ပုံမှန် ပြီးနိုင်မှာ မဟုတ်။
There's no way we can complete on time.
There's no way your mother approves.

There is nothing + (subject + can + infinitive) …နိုင်တာ (ဘာမှ) မရှိ

There's nothing we can join.
There's nothing she can cook. ချက်နိုင်တာ ဘာမှမရှိ
There's nothing we can agree on. သဘောတူနိုင်တာ မရှိ

There is nothing s + cannot + infinitive …မနိုင်တာ ဘာမှမရှိ

There is nothing we cannot do.

There is something wrong with + n …ချွတ်ယင်းတယ်၊ အယ်လာတက်တယ်။

There is something wrong with my laptop.
There is something wrong with my car.
There is something wrong with my cell phone

time + to + infinitive …...ဖို့ အချိန်တန်ပြီ

time to go သွားဖို့ အချိန်တန်ပြီ
time to say ပြောဖို့ အချိန်တန်ပြီ
time to change ပြောင်းလဲဖို့ အချိန်တန်ပြီ

was about to + infinitive…တော့မလို့ (past) (အခြားအကြောင်းအရာ ပေါ်ပေါက်လာသောအခါ)

I was about to say the same thing ကျွန်ုပ်လဲ အဲဒီအတိုင်း ပြောတော့မလို့
A:Were you in the middle of something? I don't want to bother you. B: I was about to watch a movie, but that can wait.

What are the chances of v-ing ? ..ရခြင်းက ဘာတွေ အကျိုးရှိလဲ၊ အခွင့်အရေးရှိလဲ

What are the chances of getting tickets?
What are the chances of that happening?
What are the chances of it raining today?

What do you think about + v-ing? …တာ..ဘယ်လို ထင်လဲ၊ …ရင် ..ကောင်းမလား

What do you think about having a cup of tea with me? လက်ဖက်ရည်သောက်ရင် ကောင်းမလား (သောက်ချင်လား)
What do you think about working overtime next week? နောက်ပတ် အချိန်ပို လုပ်ရင် ကောင်းမလား

What I am saying is (that) + sentence… ပြောချင်တာက

What I am saying is that something needs to change at our company.
What I am saying is that I quit.
What I am saying is that I don’t know what to do.
What I am saying is that it is time for a change.
What Mark is saying is that we need to invest more in advertising.
What she is saying is that our company needs to change our vacation policy
What I was saying was that we need to cut back on expenses. I wasn’t saying that we need to fire workers. You misunderstood me
What I mean is that I need some help.
What I mean is that we need to take action now. We can’t afford to wait

What if + subject + v …ရင် ဘာဖြစ်မှာလဲ

What if I miss the bus? ကားလွတ်သွားရင် ဘာဖြစ်မှာလဲ
What if I were late to dinner?
What if I called her tomorrow?

Why don’t we + infinitive ? ဘာကြောင့် ကျွန်ုပ်တို့ မ…လဲ

Why don't we save more money? ဘာကြောင့် ငါတို့ ပိုက်ဆံ မစုတာလဲ
Why don't we remember this place?
Why don't we test this before using it?
Why don't we try and do it again?

will help + object + infinitive …ဖို့ ကူညီမယ် (လုပ်ပေးမယ်)

I’ll help you cook dinner tonight ငါ ဒီည မင်းကို ထမင်းချက် ကူညီမယ် (ချက်ပေးမယ်)
It’ll help me stop smoking
He will help you shop for groceries.

would like + to infinitive …လိုတယ်။ (formal)

I would like to answer that question.
I would like to compete in a cooking contest.
I would like to explain myself.

You’re supposed to + infinitive ..ရမည်။ …သင့်သည်။

You’re supposed to pay the bill by Friday
You're supposed to keep that secret.
You're supposed to let me know when you leave.
They were supposed to be here an hour ago.
You’re not supposed to walk on the grass (...ရန် ခွင့်မပြု)

You could have + v3 …ချင်ရင်….နိုင်ခဲ့မယ် (ဒါပေမဲ့ မလုပ်ဖြစ်ခဲ့ဘူး)။

You could have completed it sooner.
You could have blown your chance.
You could have done better on your exam.
You could have given me more time to get ready.
I could have moved out when I was 18, but I didn't want to leave my family

You’d better + infinitive …သင့် (မဟုတ်ရင် ပြဿနာတစ်ခုခုရှိနိုင်)

The film starts at 8.30. You’d better go now or you’ll be late.
It might rain. You’d better take an umbrella.
You don’t look very well. You’d better not go to work today (negative)
“Are you going out tonight?”. ‘I’d better not’. ‘I’ve got a lot to do’. (negative)