ábhartha
abhcóide
abhlann
ábhraigh
abhus
acadamh
acadúil
ach
achainí
achainigh
achan
achar
achoimre
achomair
achomharc
achrann
acht
aclaí
aclaíocht
acmhainn
acmhainneach
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ach
CONJUNCTION
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but
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bhí deoch uaim ach bhí an pub dúnta
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I needed a drink but the pub was closed
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tá na soilse lasta ach níl éinne sa bhaile
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the lights are on but there is nobody home
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ní féidir le héinne ach leat féin an jab a dhéanamh
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nobody but you can do the job
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ach, cuma cé chomh hard is a bhí sí, ní raibh sí ard go leor
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but, howevere tall she was, she wasn't tall enough
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[níl] ach [rud]
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[there is] only [something]
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níl agam ach deich euro
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I only have ten euro
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níor tháinig ach beirt
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only two people arrived
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[tarlóidh A] ach [B a dhéanamh]
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[A will happen] if [B is done]
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tá bileog as Gaeilge le fáil ach í a iarraidh
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a leaflet in Irish is available on request
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gheobhaidh tú é ach é a lorg
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you will get it if you look for it
Iontrálacha gaolmhara
Related entries
Related entries
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ach amháin
SYNONYM: ach
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except
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níl cead pinn luaidhe a úsáid ach amháin chun nótaí a thógáil
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a pencil is not allowed, except to take notes
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ní féidir iad a dhíbirt ach amháin i gcúinsí an-srianta
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they cannot be expelled, except in very limited circumstances
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ní chasaim ceol ach amháin sa mbaile
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I only make music at home
STAITISTICÍ · STATISTICS
Is é ach an
19ú focal
is minice úsáid sa Ghaeilge.
Tagann sé chun cinn uair amháin i ngach 196 focal.
Ach is the
19th
most frequently used word in Irish.
It occurs once in every 196 words.
Samplaí gaolmhara
Related examples
Related examples
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níl cead pinn luaidhe a úsáid ach amháin chun nótaí a thógáil
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a pencil is not allowed, except to take notes
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ní féidir iad a dhíbirt ach amháin i gcúinsí an-srianta
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they cannot be expelled, except in very limited circumstances
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ní sláinte an choirp amháin a bhí i gceist aige ach sláinte na haigne chomh maith
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he meant not only health of the body but also health of the mind
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tá siad á n-adhradh ag an bpobal inniu ach déanfar dearmad glan orthu amárach
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people worship them today but they will be all fogotten tomorrow
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níl againn de theilifís ach a dtagann isteach tríd an aeróg
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we only have the TV that comes in through the aerial
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níl mé ach díreach tagtha ar ais
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I only just came back
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níl agam air ach ríomhaithne
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I only know him through the Internet
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ní don chistin amháin é seo, ar ndóigh, ach bheadh sé úsáideach ann
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this is not just for the kitchen, of course, but it would be useful there
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níl ach beagán airgid agam
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I only have a little money
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níl sé ach dhá bhliain d’aois
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he is only two years old
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níl ionat ach cailín beag
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you're only a small girl
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ní féidir liom geallúintí ar a bith a thabhairt ach déanfaidh mé mo dhícheall
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I can't promise anything but I'll do my best
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níl sa cháipéis seo ach dréacht
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this document is only a draft
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bhí muid ag súil le triúr agus níor tháinig ach duine
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we expected three but only one person came
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níl ach cúpla nóiméad fágtha
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there only a couple of minutes left
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níl ach cúig euro fágtha agam
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I only have five euro left
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bhí mé ag obair i monarcha ach tá mé éirithe as
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I was working at a factory but I am retired now
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bhí sí lách i dtús báire ach d'athraigh sí an port tar éis tamaill
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she was nice at first but she changed the tune after a while
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is cinnte go bhfuil an ceart aige, ach...
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he is certainly right, but...
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bhí a fhios agam go raibh idirdhealú éigin ann idir an dá rud, ach ní raibh mé cinnte
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I knew there was a distinction between the two thing but I wasn't sure
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bíonn an corrán in úsáid uaireanta ach níl sé chomh maith leis an scian
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they use the sickle sometimes but it is not as good as the knife
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ní gá duit seoladh a thabhairt, ach má dhéanann tú amhlaidh, beidh muid in ann freagra pearsanta a thabhairt
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you do not have to state your address but if you do so, we will be able to reply personally
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níl leigheas ar ghrá ach pósadh
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the only cure for love is marriage
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ní cuimhin liom gach pioc den scéal ach is cuimhin liom gur inis sé go hálainn é
Alan Titley: Gluaiseacht, An Gúm, 2009
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I don't remember all the details of the story but I do remember that he told it beautifully
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bhí sé san ospidéal, ach tá sé ar ais sa bhaile anois
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he was in hospital but he is back at home now
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dúradh liom gan dul ann, ach chuaigh mé ann mar sin féin
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I was told not to go there but I went there all the same
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ní raibh mé ach ag meilt ama
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I was only killing time
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níl an siopa ach leathmhíle ó mo theach
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the shop is only half a mile from my house
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níl ach dhá rogha againn
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we only have two options
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ní raibh fágtha ina dhiaidh ach roinnt scríbhinní gearra bacacha
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he has only left behind some short, lame writings
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níl agam ach tuairim gharbh
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I only have a rough idea
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níl ann ach tuairimíocht
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that's only speculation
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Níl ionat ach buachaill beag.
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You're only a small boy.
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Níl agam ach conradh sealadach.
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I only have a temporary contract.
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Ní gá duit seoladh a thabhairt, ach má dhéanann tú amhlaidh, beidh muid in ann freagra pearsanta a thabhairt.
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You do not have to state your address but if you do, we will be able to reply personally.
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Tá Toyota ag m'athair ach tá Ford agamsa.
Diarmuid Ó Sé, Joseph Shiels: Teach Yourself Irish, Teach Yourself Books, 1998
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My father has a Toyota but I have a Ford.
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Tá deartháir ag Dara ach tá sé sa mbunscoil anois.
Colloquial Irish: The Complete Course for Beginners, Routledge, 2008
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Dara has a brother but he is at the primary school now.
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teanga mharbh í nach mbíonn á labhairt ach seanduine thall is abhus
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it is a dead language spoken only by a few old people here and there
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Níl aon inneall níocháin ann ach tá teilifís ann.
Colloquial Irish: The Complete Course for Beginners, Routledge, 2008
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There isn't a washing machine but there is a television.
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Níl ach cithfholcadán sa seomra folctha.
Colloquial Irish: The Complete Course for Beginners, Routledge, 2008
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There is only a shower in the bathroom.
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Níl sé ach bloc nó dhó ón amharclann.
Colloquial Irish: The Complete Course for Beginners, Routledge, 2008
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It's only a block or two from the theater.
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Ní chasaim ach amháin sa mbaile.
Colloquial Irish: The Complete Course for Beginners, Routledge, 2008
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I only sing in the house (at home).
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Níl an teach ach cúig nóiméad ón ollscoil, ach fós bíonn an-mhoill orm.
Colloquial Irish: The Complete Course for Beginners, Routledge, 2008
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I only live five minutes from the college, but still I am very late.
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b'fhearr don aistritheoir ní amháin an téacs a léamh go cúramach ach roinnt taighde a dhéanamh chomh maith
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the translator should not only read the text carefully but do a bit of research as well
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Is post sealadach é, ach is banaltra í mo bhean agus is post buan é sin.
Colloquial Irish: The Complete Course for Beginners, Routledge, 2008
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It is a temporary position, but my wife is a nurse and that is a permanent position.
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ní chasaim ceol ach amháin sa mbaile
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I only make music at home
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Tá mé níos fearr anois ach bíonn pian orm uaireanta.
Colloquial Irish: The Complete Course for Beginners, Routledge, 2008
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I am better now but I have a pain at times.
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bhí seachtain amháin deas te, ach bhí an dara seachtain beagáinín fuar
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one week was nice and warm, but the second week was a little cold
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ní bhfuair mé ach ceann amháin
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I only got one
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Tá brón orm, ach tá tuirse an domhain orm agus tá an aimsir uafásach.
Colloquial Irish: The Complete Course for Beginners, Routledge, 2008
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I am sorry, but I am extremely tired and the weather is awful.
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Níl agam ach aeróg, mar sin ní bhíonn ach RTÉ1, RTÉ2, agus TG4 agam sa mbaile.
Colloquial Irish: The Complete Course for Beginners, Routledge, 2008
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I only have an antenna, therefore I only have RTÉ1, RTÉ2, and TG4 at home.
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chuir sé ceist orm, ach níor thug mé freagra dó
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he asked me a question but I didn't answer him
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is fíor sin, ach ní chreidfidh siad muid
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that's right but they won't believe us
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tugann dochtúirí cógas dóibh a thugann faoiseamh dóibh ach nach leigheasann iad
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doctors give them medicines which give them relief but do not cure them
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Ach tá sé go deas casadh ar dhaoine nua freisin.
Éamonn Ó Dónaill: Turas Teanga, RTÉ/Gill & Macmillan, 2004
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But it's nice to meet new people, too.
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Níl sa bhaile anois ach mé féin agus mo dheartháir Pádraig.
Éamonn Ó Dónaill: Turas Teanga, RTÉ/Gill & Macmillan, 2004
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The only people at home now are myself and my brother Pádraig.
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níor thuig mé gach focal ach thuig mé éirim na cainte
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I didn't understand every word but I understood the gist of the talk
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ach an ndeachaigh sé timpeall na cruinne i ndáiríre?
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but did he really go around the world?
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An ndéanann tú aclaíocht ar bith? Ní dhéanann - ach amháin bheith ag caitheamh saighead.
Éamonn Ó Dónaill: Turas Teanga, RTÉ/Gill & Macmillan, 2004
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Do you get any exercise at all? I don't - except throwing darts.
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bhí an teilifís ar siúl sa chúlra ach ní raibh mé ag féachaint uirthi mórán
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the televison was on in the background but I wasn't watching it much
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tá an ceart agam ach ní féidir liom é a chruthú
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I am right but I can't prove it
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Níl sé ach cúpla míle ó Ghaillimh.
'Gaeilge gan Stró!', Beginners Level, ranganna.com
♦
It's only a few miles from Galway.
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Tá sé cois farraige ach gar don chathair freisin.
'Gaeilge gan Stró!', Beginners Level, ranganna.com
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It's beside the sea but close to the city as well.
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Bhí mé pósta ach tá mé colscartha anois.
'Gaeilge gan Stró!', Beginners Level, ranganna.com
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I was married but I'm divorced now.
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Níl mé pósta ach tá mé ag siúl amach le duine éigin le trí bliana anois.
'Gaeilge gan Stró!', Beginners Level, ranganna.com
♦
I'm not married but I've been going out with someone for three years now.
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Seanteach sraithe atá ann agus níl ach trí sheomra ann.
'Gaeilge gan Stró!', Beginners Level, ranganna.com
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It's an old terraced house and there are only three rooms.
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Níl gairdín ar bith agam, faraor, ach tá páirc mhór, an-ghar do mo theach.
'Gaeilge gan Stró!', Beginners Level, ranganna.com
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I have no garden, alas, but there's a big park very close to my house
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tá bileog eolais le fáil ach í a iarraidh
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an information leaflet is available at request
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Buaileadh an píolóta sa chloigeann ach thuirling an t-eitleán slán sábhailte.
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The pilot was hit in the head but the airplane landed safely.
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Bhí daoine ann, chuala mé ag béiceadh iad, ach ní raibh mé in ann tadhall leo.
Alan Titley: Gluaiseacht, An Gúm, 2009
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There were people there, I heard them shouting, but I wasn't able to touch them.
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nílim ach ag magadh
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I am only joking
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maidir leis an rud a dúirt tusa, tá an ceart agat, ach...
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as for the thing you said, you are right, but...
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Ní mhaireann aon ní ach seal.
Alex Hijmans: Aiséirí, Cois Life 2011
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Everything only lasts for a short time.
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Ní raibh ach triúr ar bord an eitleáin.
'Beo!', beo.ie
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There were only three people on board the airplane.
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is as an Pholainn ó dhúchas mé, ach tá mé i mo chónaí in Éirinn anois
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I am from Poland originally but I live in Ireland now
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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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ní raibh tuairim dá laghad orm cad ba chóir dom a dhéanamh, ach chuir sise comhairle mo leasa orm
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I had absolutely no idea what to do but she gave good advice
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Ní raibh le feiceáil ar an túr ach poll mór ina thaobh.
'Beo!', beo.ie
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All you could see on the building was a big hole in its side.
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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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Níor ceadaíodh ach correitilt sa tír go ceann seachtaine eile agus, ar ndóigh, ba bheag duine a bhí ag iarraidh eitilt ach oiread.
'Beo!', beo.ie
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For a whole week, flights were grounded in the country with only occasional exceptions and, of course, hardly anybody even wanted to fly.
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Ach níorbh shin é deireadh an scéil.
'Beo!', beo.ie
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But that was not the end of the story.
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Níor ghá gur thomhaltóirí nuachta iad an lucht léitheoireachta nó éisteachta a thuilleadh ach táirgeoirí a bheadh in inmhe a gcuid tuairiscí féin a bhailiú.
'Beo!', beo.ie
♦
Readers and listeners did not have to be consumers of news anymore but producers who were able to collect their own reports.
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Rugadh agus tógadh í i Ros an Mhíl, ach tá cónaí orainn i Leitir Mucú anois.
Colloquial Irish: The Complete Course for Beginners, Routledge, 2008
♦
She was born and raised in Ros an Mhíl, but we live in Leitir Mucú now.
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Is maith an coincheap é iriseoireacht an tsaoránaigh ach i ndeireadh ama caithfear na billí a íoc!
'Beo!', beo.ie
♦
Citizen journalism is a nice concept but, in the end, somebody has to pay the bills!
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Níl i Twitter go bunúsach ach teachtaireachtaí téacs don idirlíon.
'Beo!', beo.ie
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Twitter is basically just text messages for the Internet.
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Ní thógann ach daoine bochta an bus.
'Beo!', beo.ie
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Only poor people take the bus.
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Ach bhí an comórtas géar idir na soláthróirí, agus bhí na brabaigh caol.
'Beo!', beo.ie
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But competition between the suppliers was fierce and the profits were narrow.
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Thug sí oideas dom agus fuair mé an cógas sa gcógaslann ach cuireann an cógas sin tuirse orm.
Colloquial Irish: The Complete Course for Beginners, Routledge, 2008
♦
She gave me a prescription and I got the medicine in the pharmacy but the medicine makes me tired.
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Is fuath liom a bheith ag siopadóireacht ach go n-éirí sé libh.
Colloquial Irish: The Complete Course for Beginners, Routledge, 2008
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I hate to go shopping, but best of luck to you.
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.
