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fee
few [fju:] (adj), (pron)
not many emphasizing the smallness
of the number):
နည္းေသာ။ အနည္း။
Few people visit me nowadays.
ခုတစ္ေလာ ဧည့္သည္မလာသေလာက္ပဲ။
Such opportunities are few.
ဒီလိုအခြင့္အလမ္းမ်ိဳး ေပၚခဲတယ္။
Note: few is used with
individual things
or people: I have a few stamps left;
A few people stayed. little is
used with things that occur in a mass:
I have a little money left. fewer
is
used with individual things of people.
I
made fewer mistakes than
you did: Fewer people smoke
nowadays. less is used with things
that occur in a mass: He has less
money than I have Note that a few
and a little mean 'some':
You
may invite a few friends to
your
party;
He put a little sugar in his coffee.
Few
and little mean hardly any!
A poor man has few friends;
He had little respect for his
teacher. few ကိုေရတြက္ႏိုင္ေသာ
နာမ္တို႕ႏွင့္ သံုးသည္။
fewer သည္
few ၏သာလြန္အဆင့္ ျဖစ္သည္။
little ကို မေရတြက္ႏိုင္ေသာ
နာမ္၊ စုေပါင္းနာမ္တို႕ႏွင့္သံုးသည္။
less သည္
little ၏သာလြန္အဆင့္ ျဖစ္သည္။
a few, a little = အခ်ိဳ႕အနည္းငယ္။
few, little = မရွိသေလာက္။
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