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A man and a woman were sitting opposite me. The man was American, but I think the woman was British. လူတစ္ေယာက္န႔ဲ အမ်ိဳးသမီးတစ္ေယာက္ ငါ့မ်က္ႏွာခ်င္းဆိုင္မွာ ထိုင္ေနခဲ့တယ္။ဒီလူၾကီးကေတာ့ အေမရိကန္ပဲ။ဒါေပမယ့္ ဒီအမ်ိဳးသမီးကေတာ့ အဂၤလိပ္လူမ်ိဳးျဖစ္မယ္။ When we were on holiday, we stayed at a hotel. Sometimes we ate at the hotel and sometimes we went to a restaurant. အားလပ္ရက္ေတြေရာက္ေသာအခါ ငါတို႔ဟုိတယ္မွာတည္းခဲ့တယ္။ တစ္ခါတစ္ေလ ဟိုတယ္မွာထမင္းစားျပီး တစ္ခါတစ္ေလေတာ့ စားေသာက္ဆိုင္မွာ စားခဲ့ၾကတယ္။ B: We use the when we are thinking of a specific thing. Compare a/an and the: တိက်တဲ့အရာကိုေျပာခ်င္ရင္ the ကိုသံုးပါသည္။ Tim sat down on a chair. (perhaps one of many chairs in the room) တင္မ္ သည္ ထိုင္ခံုတစ္လံုးမွာထိုင္ခ့တ ဲ ယ္။ Tim sat down on the chair nearest the door. ( a specific chair) တင္မ္ သည္ တံခါးနားကထိုင္ခံုေပၚမွာထိုင္ခ့တ ဲ ယ္။ Paula is looking for a job. (not a specific job) ေပၚလာ အလုပ္တစ္ခုရွာေနတယ္။ Did Paula get the job the applied for? (a specific job) ေပၚလာေလ်ာက္ထားတဲ့ အလုပ္ရသြားျပီလား။ Have you got a car? (not a specific car) မင္းမွာကားရွိလား။ I cleaned the car yesterday. (=my car) ငါမေန႔ငါ့ကားကိုေရေဆးခဲ့တယ္။ C: We use the when it is clear in the situation which thing or person we mean. For example, in a room we talk about the light/the floor/ the ceiling/ the door/ the carpet etc.: ကၽြန္ေတာ္တို႔ေျပာခ်င္တ့ဲ အရာ၀တၳဳ၊လူ ရဲ့တိက်တဲ့အေျခအေနကိုေျပာခ်င္ရင္ the ကိုသံုးပါတယ္။ ဥပမာCan you turn off the light, please? ေက်းဇူးျပဳျပီး မီးပိတ္ေပးနုိင္မလား။ I took a taxi to the station. (=the station in that town) ကၽြန္ေတာ္ ဘူတာရံုကို ကားတစ္စီးငွားခဲ့တယ္။ (in a shop) I’d like to speak to the manager, please. (=the manager of this shop)