PHRASES
IN FOCLÓIR GAEILGE—BÉARLA
Tá sé ag brú ar dhaichead bliain ó tharla sé, it is close on forty years since it happened.
~ a haon, a dó, forty-one, -two.
~ fear, bliain, forty men, years.
~ a haon, a haon is ~, forty-one.
Dhá bhliain is ~, forty-two years.
~ fear, bean, bliain, forty men, women, years.
Daichead míle (san uair), tríocha míle an galún, a dhéanamh, to do, travel, forty miles (an hour), thirty miles to the gallon.
Tá an daichead ~ta aige, he has passed the forty mark.
Tá sé ar ghob an daichid, he is going on forty.
Daichead ~ sa chéad, forty hands make a (great) hundred.
~ mbliana is daichead, forty-nine years.
~ mbliana is daichead, forty-eight years.
~ lá is daichead, forty-six days.
Daichead bliain de sheirbhís, forty years’ service.