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tosach
MASCULINE NOUN
start
beginning
Foirmeacha gramadaí
Grammatical forms
tosach
MASCULINE NOUN
GENITIVE SINGULAR
tosaigh
NOMINATVE PLURAL
tosaigh
GENITIVE PLURAL
tosach
Iontrálacha gaolmhara
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tosaigh
VERB
OPPOSITE: críochnaigh
start
begin
thosaigh an bhliain
the year started
an obair ag tosú
the work is beginning
thosaigh ag baint a cuid éadaí di
she started taking her clothes off
mise a thosaigh an próiseas
I started the process
STAITISTICÍ · STATISTICS
Is é tosach an 286ú focal is minice úsáid sa Ghaeilge. Tagann sé chun cinn uair amháin i ngach 3,503 focal.
Tosach is the 286th most frequently used word in Irish. It occurs once in every 3,503 words.
Samplaí gaolmhara
Related examples
thosaigh daoine ag filleadh ar ais abhaile
people started returning home
b'iad na Normannaigh a thosaigh an nós féasóg a bhearradh agus gruaig a ghearradh
it was the Normans who started the habit of shaving beards and cutting hair
thosaigh ag dul ar scoil nuair a bhí seacht mbliana d’aois
she started going to school when she was seven years of age
thosaigh siad do mo cheistiú
they started questioning me
cén t-am a thosaigh an cruinniú?
when did the meeting start?
thosaigh daoine ag tuirlingt den traein
people started getting off the train
fuair greim ar an mhicreafón agus thosaigh ag canadh
he grabbed the microphone and started singing
i dtús na seachtóidí thosaigh daoine ag filleadh ar ais abhaile
at the start of the seventies people started to return home
níorbh fhada gur thosaigh feachtais in aghaidh na sclábhaíochta
it wasn't long until anti-slavery campaigns started
las toitín úr agus thosaigh ag caint
he lit up a fresh cigarette and started to talk
thosaigh siad ag marú na muc
they started killing the pigs
thosaigh an tsláinte ag meath air agus fuair bás
his health started declining and he died
thosaigh ag tabhairt amach do Shéamus
she started giving out to Séamus
tosaigh ag an tús
start at the beginning
Bíonn gach tosach lag.
Diarmuid Ó Sé, Joseph Shiels: Teach Yourself Irish, Teach Yourself Books, 1998
Every beginning is weak.