the [Dc , Di] (adj)
    (The form [Dc] is used before words beginning
    with a consonant eg the house or consonant
    sound eg the union: ဗ်ည္းသံႏွင့္စသည့္   စကားလံုးမ်ားေ႐ွ႕တြင္
    [Dc] အသံထြက္ကို အသံုးျပဳသည္။
    the form [Di] is used before words beginning with
    a vowel eg the apple or vowel sound eg
   the honour. ဒၶ၊နာစၦ(သရသံႏွင့္စသည့္   စကားလံုးမ်ားေ႐ွ႕တြင္   [Di] အသံုးျပဳသည္။)
1. used to refer to a person, thing etc mentioned
    previously, described in a following phrase,
    or already known:   အထက္တြင္ ေဖာ္ျပျပီးျဖစ္ေသာ လူ၊   အရာ၀တၳဳတို႕ကို ရည္ညႊန္း   ရာတြင္သံုးသည္။ ဆက္၍   လာမည့္ပုဒ္တြင္ ပါမည့္အရာကို   ညႊန္းရာတြင္ သံုးသည္။
    Where is the book I put on the table?
  ငါ စားပဲြေပၚမွာ တင္ထားတဲ့   စာအုပ္ ဘယ္မွာလဲ။
    Who was the man you were talking to?
  မင္းနဲ႕ စကားေျပာတဲ့ သူက   ဘယ္သူလဲ။
    My mug is the tall blue one.
  ကၽြန္ေတာ့္ခြက္က ခပ္႐ွည္႐ွည္နဲ႕   အျပာေရာင္။
    Switch the light off!
  မီးပိတ္လိုက္ပါ။
2. used with a singular noun or an adjective to
    refer to all members of a group etc or to
    a general type of object, group of objects etc.
  အားလံုးေသာ (သုိ႕) ေယဘုယ်ျဖစ္ေသာ။   (ဧက၀ုစ္ကိန္းနာမ္ႏွင့္တဲြသံုးသည္)။
    The horse is a beautiful animal.
  ျမင္းသည္ လွပေသာ   တိရစၦာန္ျဖစ္သည္။
    I spoke to him on the telephone.
  သူ႕ကို တယ္လီဖုန္းျဖင့္   စကားေျပာသည္။
    He plays the piano very well.
  သူ စႏၵရားကို ေကာင္းစြာ   တီးတတ္သည္။
3. used to refer to unique objects etc, esp in
    titles and names:
  ဘဲြ႕၊ အမည္မ်ားတြင္သံုးသည္။
    the Duke of Edinburgh.
  အီဒင္ဘာရာျမိဳ႕စားၾကီး။
    the Atlantic (Ocean).
  အတၱလန္တိတ္သမုဒၵရာ။
4. used after a preposition with words referring
    to a unit of quantity, time etc:
  အေရအတြက္၊ အခ်ိန္ကို   ရည္ညႊန္းသည့္စကားလံုးမ်ားႏွင့္   ဖက္၍ ၀ိဘတ္၏ေနာက္တြင္   သံုးသည္။
    In this job we are paid by the hour.
  ဤအလုပ္တြင္ လုပ္ခကို   နာရီႏွင့္ ေပးသည္။
5. used with superlative adjectives and adverbs
    to denote a person, thing etc which is or shows
    more of something than any other:
  အသာလြန္ဆံုးအဆင့္ နာမ၀ိေသသနႏွင့္   ၾကိယာ၀ိေသသနတို႕ႏွင့္ တဲြ၍သံုးသည္။
    He is the kindest man I know.
  ကၽြန္ေတာ္ သိသမွၽထဲတြင္ သူသည္   က႐ုဏာတရား အျပည့္၀ဆံုးလူ   ျဖစ္သည္။
    We like him (the) best of all.
  အားလံုးထဲတြင္ သူ႕ကို ကၽြန္ေတာ္တို႕   သေဘာအက်ဆံုးျဖစ္သည္။
6. (often with all) used with comparative
    adjectives to show that a person, thing etc
    is better, worse etc:   သာလြန္အဆင့္ နာမ၀ိေသသန   မ်ားေ႐ွ႕၊
    all ၏ေနာက္၌ ထား၍ သံုးသည္။
    He has had a week's holiday and looks (all)
    the better for it. သူအားလပ္ရက္   တစ္ပတ္ယူျပီးတဲ့အခါ ၾကည့္ရတာ   အေျခအေနပိုေကာင္းလာတယ္။
    the ... ,the ..., (with comparative
    adjs or advs)  used to show the connection or
    relationship between two actions, states,
    processes etc: -ေလ-ေလ။
    The harder you work, the more you earn.
  ၾကိဳးစားေလ ပိုက္ဆံရေလ။