caimiléireacht
cáin
cáineadh
cainéal
caingean
cáiníocóir
cainneann
caint
cainteoir
cáipéis
caipín
caipiteal
caipitleachas
caipitlí
cairde
cairdeagan
cairdeas
cairdiach
cairdín
cairdinéal
cairdinéalta
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caint
FEMININE NOUN
♦
speech
talk
♦
caint an Uachtaráin
♦
the President's speech
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an iomarca cainte
♦
too much talk
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ní maith liom a chuid cainte
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I don't like his talk
I don't like what he says
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chuaigh muid i mbun cainte
♦
we started to talk
we stroke up a conversation
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chuir mé caint ar mhuintir na háite
♦
I talked to the local people
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is deacair caint a bhaint as
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it is hard to make him talk
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caint
VERBAL NOUN
♦
speaking
talking
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tá mé ag caint
♦
I am speaking
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beidh mé ag caint leat arís
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I'll be talking to you again
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is breá liom bheith ag caint le daoine
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I like talking to people
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ní maith liom bheith ag caint go poiblí
♦
I don't like speaking in public
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bhí siad ag caint fúmsa
♦
they were talking about me
Foirmeacha gramadaí
Grammatical forms
Grammatical forms
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caint
FEMININE NOUN
♦
GENITIVE SINGULAR
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cainte
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NOMINATVE PLURAL
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cainteanna
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GENITIVE PLURAL
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cainteanna
STAITISTICÍ · STATISTICS
Is é caint an
138ú focal
is minice úsáid sa Ghaeilge.
Tagann sé chun cinn uair amháin i ngach 1,744 focal.
Caint is the
138th
most frequently used word in Irish.
It occurs once in every 1,744 words.
Samplaí gaolmhara
Related examples
Related examples
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a chuid cainte
♦
his talk
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Ní maith liom a chuid cainte.
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I don't like his talk. I don't like what he says.
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saoirse cainte
♦
freedom of speech
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las sé toitín úr agus thosaigh ag caint
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he lit up a fresh cigarette and started to talk
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níor thuig mé gach focal ach thuig mé éirim na cainte
♦
I didn't understand every word but I understood the gist of the talk
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Tá sí ina ceap cainte ag an mbaile.
♦
She is the talk of the town.
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cheapfá óna gcuid cainte go raibh siad ag bualadh craicinn gach oíche
♦
you'd think from their talk that they had sex every night
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Traidhfil blianta ó shin, bhíothas ag caint ar bhreacadh ré úr do na meáin chumarsáide.
'Beo!', beo.ie
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A few years ago people were talking about the dawning of a new age for the media.
♦
Ní bheadh gar domhsa nó duitse a bheith ag caint leo.
Séamus Ó Grianna: Caisleáin Óir, eag. Niall Ó Dónaill, Cló Mercier, 1976
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There'd be no point for you or me talking to them.
♦
Ba chóir duit bheith ag caint le do mhacasamhail féin eile.
Séamus Ó Grianna: Caisleáin Óir, eag. Niall Ó Dónaill, Cló Mercier, 1976
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You should talk to people of your own social standing.
♦
Tháinig sé fá fhad cainte dó.
Séamus Ó Grianna: Caisleáin Óir, eag. Niall Ó Dónaill, Cló Mercier, 1976
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He got close enough to him to talk.
♦
Níl gar a bheith ag caint.
Séamus Ó Grianna: Caisleáin Óir, eag. Niall Ó Dónaill, Cló Mercier, 1976
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There's no point saying anything.
♦
Slán leat, a Shiobhán. Beidh mé ag caint leat amárach.
'Gaeilge gan Stró!', Beginners Level, ranganna.com
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Goodbye, Siobhán. I'll be talking to you tomorrow.
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Bhí muid díreach ag caint fút.
Éamonn Ó Dónaill: Turas Teanga, RTÉ/Gill & Macmillan, 2004
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We were just talking about you.
♦
tharla go raibh muid ag caint fútsa díreach nuair a tháinig tú isteach
♦
we happened to be talking about you just when you came in
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cuideoidh na habairtí samplacha leat na focail a fhí isteach i do chuid cainte go nádúrtha
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the example sentences will help you to weave the words naturally into your own speech
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bhí a chuid cainte rud beag doiléir
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his talk was a little obscure
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tá cuma na fírinne ar do chuid cainte
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what you're saying seems true
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chuir an múinteoir na daltaí ag caint
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the teacher made the students talk
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Bíodh ciall agat agus fág an cineál sin cainte le rá ag duine inteacht eile.
Séamus Ó Grianna: Caisleáin Óir, eag. Niall Ó Dónaill, Cló Mercier, 1976
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Be sensible and don't say such things.
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Bhí sé chomh maith a bheith ag caint leis an ghealach le a bheith ag caint leis.
Séamus Ó Grianna: Caisleáin Óir, eag. Niall Ó Dónaill, Cló Mercier, 1976
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You could just as well be talking to the moon instead of talking to him.
♦
Ach cá bhfuil mé ag caint?
Séamus Ó Grianna: Caisleáin Óir, eag. Niall Ó Dónaill, Cló Mercier, 1976
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But what am I saying?
♦
An raibh tú ag éisteacht le caint an Uachtaráin?
♦
Were you listening to the President's speech?
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Tá fáilte romhaibh ar ais. Ar an chlár inniu tá mé ag caint le Aoife Ní Loideáin.
Éamonn Ó Dónaill: Turas Teanga, RTÉ/Gill & Macmillan, 2004
♦
Welcome back. On the programme today I am talking to Aoife Ní Loideáin.
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Síleann tú an cineál seo cainte a bheith iontach ag mo leithéidse.
Séamus Ó Grianna: Caisleáin Óir, eag. Niall Ó Dónaill, Cló Mercier, 1976
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You think it's strange for me to talk like that.
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b'ionann a chaint agus admháil lom nach bhfuil fios a ghnó féin aige
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what he said was tantamount to a clear admission he doesn't understand his own job
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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.
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Data from Pota Focal House Glossary is used in LingoBrain, a vocabulary learning game for mobile phones.
