cuntasóireacht
cúntóir
cuóta
cupa
cupán
cupard
cúpla
cúplach
cúpón
cúr
curaclam
curadh
cúram
cúramach
curfá
curiarracht
cúrsa
cúrsaí
cúrsáil
cúrsóir
cuspóir
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cúpla
MASCULINE NOUN
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couple
small amount
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cúpla bliain
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a couple of years
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cúpla rud
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a couple of things
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cúpla duine
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a couple of people
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cúpla
MASCULINE NOUN
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twins
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is cúpla muid
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we are twins
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cúpla comhionann
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identical twins
Foirmeacha gramadaí
Grammatical forms
Grammatical forms
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cúpla
MASCULINE NOUN
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GENITIVE SINGULAR
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cúpla
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NOMINATVE PLURAL
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cúplaí
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GENITIVE PLURAL
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cúplaí
Samplaí gaolmhara
Related examples
Related examples
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bhí mé sa bheár le cúpla cara agus bhí an chraic go hiontach
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I was in the bar with a few friends and it was great fun
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is beag baile i Meiriceá atá níos sine ná cúpla céad bliain
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there are very few towns in America that are older than a few hundred years
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Tá ollmhargadh agus cúpla monarcha in Indreabhán, ach ní baile fós é.
Colloquial Irish: The Complete Course for Beginners, Routledge, 2008
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There's a supermarket and a couple of factories in Indreabhán, but it isn't [what you would call] a town yet.
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Tá sé cúpla ciliméadar ón tsráidbhaile.
Colloquial Irish: The Complete Course for Beginners, Routledge, 2008
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It is a few kilometers from the village.
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níl ach cúpla nóiméad fágtha
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there only a couple of minutes left
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an mbeidh tú fós thart go ceann cúpla nóiméad eile?
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will you still be around for another few minutes?
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chuaigh mé thart ar an teach cúpla uair
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I went around the house several times
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Tá sé cúpla ciliméadar ón mBóthar Buí.
Colloquial Irish: The Complete Course for Beginners, Routledge, 2008
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It is a few kilometers from An Bóthar Buí.
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Chonaic mé í anseo cúpla uair le do mhac Dara.
Colloquial Irish: The Complete Course for Beginners, Routledge, 2008
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I saw her here a couple of times with your son Dara.
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Cónaím cúpla ciliméadar soir an bóthar.
Colloquial Irish: The Complete Course for Beginners, Routledge, 2008
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I live a couple kilometers up (eastwards) the road.
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Chas mé le cúpla seanchara as Baile na hAbhann nuair a bhí mé thall.
Colloquial Irish: The Complete Course for Beginners, Routledge, 2008
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I met a couple of old friends from Baile na hAbhann while I was over there.
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Ní raibh saoire ar bith agam le cúpla bliain.
Colloquial Irish: The Complete Course for Beginners, Routledge, 2008
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I have not had a holiday for a few years.
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Ar chas tú le cúpla seanchara?
Colloquial Irish: The Complete Course for Beginners, Routledge, 2008
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Did you meet with a few old friends?
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Bhí sé fíordheas cúpla seachtain a chaitheamh anseo, ach beidh mé sásta a bheith ar ais sa mbaile mar sin féin.
Colloquial Irish: The Complete Course for Beginners, Routledge, 2008
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It was really nice to spend a few weeks here, but I will be happy to be back home all the same.
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Tá cúpla teach tábhairne ann, agus bíonn seisiúin cheoil ar siúl ag an deireadh seachtaine.
Éamonn Ó Dónaill: Turas Teanga, RTÉ/Gill & Macmillan, 2004
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There are a couple of pubs there, and there are often music sessions on at the weekend.
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Tá a bhean ag súil le páiste i gceann cúpla mí.
Éamonn Ó Dónaill: Turas Teanga, RTÉ/Gill & Macmillan, 2004
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His wife is expecting a child in a couple of months.
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Agus sin iad Seán agus Tomás - cúpla iadsan.
Éamonn Ó Dónaill: Turas Teanga, RTÉ/Gill & Macmillan, 2004
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And those are Seán and Tomás - they're twins.
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Anois, ba mhaith liom cúpla ceist eile a chur ort faoi chaitheamh aimsire.
Éamonn Ó Dónaill: Turas Teanga, RTÉ/Gill & Macmillan, 2004
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Now, I'd like to ask you a couple more questions about pastimes.
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Tá mé i mo chónaí cúpla míle ó Ghaillimh.
'Gaeilge gan Stró!', Beginners Level, ranganna.com
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I live a few miles from Galway.
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Tá áiseanna maithe ann: ionad siopadóireachta, cúpla teach tábhairne, bialann álainn, óstán agus linn snámha.
'Gaeilge gan Stró!', Beginners Level, ranganna.com
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There are good facilities there: a shopping centre, a few pubs, a lovely restaurant, an hotel and a swimming pool.
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Níl sé ach cúpla míle ó Ghaillimh.
'Gaeilge gan Stró!', Beginners Level, ranganna.com
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It's only a few miles from Galway.
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Níl siad ina gcónaí ach cúpla míle uaimse.
'Beo!', beo.ie
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They only live a couple of miles away from me.
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Is cosúil go raibh na hionsaithe seo á mbeartú ag saighdiúirí Osama Bin Laden le cúpla bliain.
'Beo!', beo.ie
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The attacks were apparently being planned by Osama Bin Laden's soldiers for several years.
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Ghortaigh mé mo mhuineál cúpla mí ó shin.
Colloquial Irish: The Complete Course for Beginners, Routledge, 2008
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I hurt my neck a few months ago.
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Bhí mé ag machnamh ar seo cúpla lá níos déanaí.
'Beo!', beo.ie
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I was thinking about this recently.
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Ní raibh a bhean marbh ach cupla mí go rabhathas á rá i modh rúin go raibh sé ag smaoineamh ar cheann eile a tharraingt air.
Séamus Ó Grianna: Caisleáin Óir, eag. Niall Ó Dónaill, Cló Mercier, 1976
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His wife was only dead for a couple of days when people started saying in secret that he was thinking of helping himself to a new one.
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Bhí an baile mór fá chupla céad míle dóibh.
Séamus Ó Grianna: Caisleáin Óir, eag. Niall Ó Dónaill, Cló Mercier, 1976
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The city was a couple hundred miles away.
Tá Gluais Tí Pota Focal faoi cheadúnas Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share-Alike agus ar fáil le híoslódáil anseo.
Pota Focal House Glossary is under the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share-Alike licence and can be downloaded here.
Tá inneachar an bhosca ‘Staitisticí’ bunaithe ar Liosta Minicíochta Focal Gaeilge atá faoi cheadúnas Open Database License.
The content of the ‘Statistics’ boxes is based on Irish Word Frequency List which are under the Open Database License.
Tá sonraí Ghluais Tí Pota Focal á n-úsáid in LingoBrain, cluiche foghlama focal le haghaidh na nguthán póca.
Data from Pota Focal House Glossary is used in LingoBrain, a vocabulary learning game for mobile phones.
