BASIC SENTENCES
sa$ni$t |
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Hey! (exclamation to call someone's attention) |
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to get up |
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to rise (or up) |
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to get up from a sitting or a lying position |
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to be late |
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1. Hey, san, get up! It's late! |
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sa$nO&ON |
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What! |
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2. What! What time is it? |
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sa$ni$t |
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half |
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3. It's half past eight. |
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| by the time that |
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| to dress (or to be dressed) |
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to finish (or to be ready) |
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| bound to or sure to | |||
| 4. By the time [we] get dressed ('finish dressing'), it's bound to be around half past nine. |
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sa$nO&ON |
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5. That's right! ('True!') |
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at (of past time only) |
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| yesterday |
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| to tell (or to say to) |
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| 6. I told Prasit yesterday I'd meet him at ten. |
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| to hurry |
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| 7. Guess I'd better hurry a little. |
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sa$ni$t |
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| to wash (cloth; or to launder) |
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| laundryman |
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| clothes (or clothing) |
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| to send |
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| 8. The laundryman hasn't sent [my] clothes back yet. |
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| pants (or trousers) |
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| to be clean |
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| 9. [I] don't have any clean pants. |
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| to put on (or to put in) |
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| classifier for pairs of pants |
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| to be old (of things which are not alive) |
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| 10. Guess I'll have to wear an old pair. |
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sa$nO&ON |
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| to wash (anything except
clothing and the hair) |
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| face |
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| to brush (the teeth); (or
to rub across) |
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| tooth |
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| to shave |
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| beard |
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| 11. We'll have to go to the bathroom [and] wash, brush [our] teeth and shave. |
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sa$ni$t |
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to bathe (or to take a bath) |
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| 12. Are you going to take
a bath this morning? |
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sa$nO&ON |
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to
bathe |
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13.
Guess not. |
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sa$ni$t |
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| brush (or to brush) |
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| toothbrush |
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| classifier for brushes |
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| 14. Which toothbrush is mine? ('My toothbrush [is] which one?') |
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| to remember |
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| 15. Do you remember? ('Can
you remember?') |
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sa$nO&ON |
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| to be blue |
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| to be red |
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| 16. Yours is blue, mine's red. |
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sa$ni$t |
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soap |
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towel |
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word of request |
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17. Hand me the soap and a towel, [please]. |
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| sa$nO&ON | |||
| 18. Here. (A few minutes later.) |
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| sa$ni$t | |||
| 19. I'm through washing. |
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| sa$nO&ON | |||
| 20. You go ahead and get dressed first ('before [I do]'). |
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| sa$ni$t | |||
| socks (or stockings) |
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| 21. I haven't got any clean socks. |
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| size (of anything) |
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| 22. What size socks do you wear? |
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| 23. A ten and a half. |
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| to borrow or to lend |
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| let me borrow |
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| 24. Can you lend me a pair? |
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| to choose (or to pick
out) |
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| 25. Take your choice. |
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| drawer |
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| 26. [They]'re in the drawer. |
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| to thank (or thanks) |
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| 27. Thanks. |
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| shirt |
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| necktie |
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| 28. I'm going to wear a white shirt and ('with') a blue tie today. |
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| sa$nO&ON | |||
| to be pretty |
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| Guess I'll wear a blue shirt, but I haven't got any decent ties. |
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| 30. What color tie do you think'd go ('be suitable') with this shirt? |
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| 31. I think a red tie['d]
be fine ('very suitable'). |
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| sa$nO&ON | |||
| 32. Are you ready yet? |
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| sa$ni$t | |||
| moment (or in a moment) |
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| comb (or to comb) |
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| hair (of the head) |
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| 33. Just a minute; I have to comb my hair first, that's all. |
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| to be long |
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| 34. Say, my hair's getting pretty long ('has gotten very long'). |
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| barber-shop |
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| 35. Guess I'd better go to the barber-shop today. |
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| to cut (or to cut off) |
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| to wash (the hair) |
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| 36. I want to get a haircut and a shampoo. ('[I] want to have them cut and shampoo [my] hair for [me]'). |
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